Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.3 supports Quad Core Q6600??

John Andersen wrote:

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Joe Sloan wrote:

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hans.linux@igi-alliance.com wrote:

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dear all I am planning to have a new openSUSE10.3 server and am gong to have a powerful hardware to run with. I am thinking about Intel Quad Core Q6600 and memory 4GB. Question is, is Quad Core Q6600 supported by opensuse 10.3? or do i have to install 64 bit version?

I've got SLES 10 running on a system with dual quad core CPUs and top sees 8 CPUs, so I imagine OS 10.3 would have no problem either as it's running an even newer kernel.

As to your question about 64 bit, it's not an either/or proposition, opensuse is available in 32 or 64 bit versions.

X86-64 is the version for quad-core machines. (Don't load the 64bit kernel, thats a different animal.

er... you're not too far from the truth. The standard suse kernel is the right one for quad core CPUs. Either the i386 or x86_64 kernel can handle multi core just fine. The i386 kernel will run on 32 or 64-bit machines, while the x86_64 kernel will only run on the amd64 and intel emt64 architectures. Perhaps you're thinking of itanium, which is 64-bit only, end of story. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org