On Monday 22 September 2003 16:47, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 22 September 2003 16.36, fsanta wrote:
Hi everyone. I just bought a new box with an AMD XP 2200 processor.YOU pulled down a big patch last night and I now have k_athlon-2.4.20-100. Is this correct for 8.2?
Yes
Also, what's the difference between the Intel and the AMD kernel anyway?
The compiler options used to build it. The athlon kernel is built with optimisations specific for the athlon instruction set, and the default kernel is built with a generic pentium instruction set that all processors can handle.
Are there any strong reasons not to go with AMD rather than Intel? Are there any reliabilty issues? Financially AMD makes lot of sense and we are thinking of 18 new boxes like mine for our school lan which would be as it is now: 100% SuSE 8.2. We can pick up the boxes for Euros 400 whereas an PIV 2.4 is over Euros 600. Any other long term AMD users here? Cheers, Steve. Steve, we have used AMD processors on SuSE boxes at my work place for over 5 years
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