[Mageia-discuss] Kernel handling

[Michael Scherer]

Le mardi 09 novembre 2010 à 01:00 +0100, Egon Ashrafinia a écrit :
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 00:38:14 +0100
> Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Op dinsdag 09 november 2010 00:26:20 schreef Egon Ashrafinia:
> > > Hey guys :)
> > > 
> > > I'm new on the ML and now I have got something to discuss.
> > > 
> > > In Mandriva 2010.1 and Cooker we have 2 sorts of Kernels.
> > > 
> > > The first one is : kernel586-Desktop
> > > and the other one is : kernel-Desktop (i686)
> > > 
> > > Do we need i586? I mean I alwys use i686 without any problems. Maybe we
> > > should remove i586 ... what do you think?
> > > 
> > > Greeting
> > > 
> > > Egon (Wubbbi)
> > 
> > 
> > No, this has been discussed several times; some people need that kernel; 
> > because this software still runs on pentium machines and they are still being 
> > used.
> 
> But in my optinion we cant always support old Hardware. The Problem is that the i586
> Kernel is not getting out the full Power of new CPUs like AMD K10 or the Intel iX. 

On newer processors, just use a 64 bits distribution if your
preoccupation is to get the "full power" of your hardware. 

-- 
Michael Scherer