On Tuesday 18 December 2001 06:05 am, GriffinRider wrote:
Kernels compiled for a Pentium will work fine if not better than a 386 kernel on an Athlon.
Yeah, I didn't choose the 386. I assumed when I chose the 2.4.0 kernel with SMP I was choosing a rather generic kernel, not specifically geared towards
SMP = Symmetric Multi-Processor. You'd know it if you had one, the average desktop machine doesn't have one - it's mostly servers, though a few hobbiests buy them as custom motherboards. It probably is a Bad Idea to use one on a single CPU system.
anyone processor, but an all-around good one. As I asked before, isn't there one optimized for the Athlon?
You probably could compile your own, but I wouldn't reccomend that unless you really know what you're doing. Pentium optimizations, however, also improve Athlon performance, so selecting the Pentium kernels would work.
According to Pablo, I selected a kernel that was the wrong one! Should try to update via FTP again to fix it?
Maybe that's a good idea if you won't loose anything doing it.
Thanks alot, Josh
Nice name, BTW. :-)
I've always thought so!
Me too. :-)