[Mageia-discuss] Laptop or Desktop?

[Doug Laidlaw]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:04:53 +0200
Kristoffer Grundström <kristoffer.grundstrom1983 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2012-06-15 17:01, Doug Laidlaw skrev:
> > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:47:48 +0200
> > Sandro CAZZANIGA<cazzaniga.sandro at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> Le 15 juin 2012 16:42, "Kristoffer Grundström"<
> >> kristoffer.grundstrom1983 at gmail.com>  a écrit :
> >>> I haven't found any way to start the Mageia-installation to choose
> >>> which
> >> kernel to install instead of the standard.
> >>> There are differences between desktop and netbook-kernels, right?
> >> Right.
> >>
> > A while back, it was announced that there was a Mageia kernel for
> > ARM. I believe that it was referring to netbooks, which use a
> > different processor.  You wouldn't want that kernel for a laptop.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Doug.
> Shouldn't that kernel be renamed to somthing more detailed so people
> can tell them apart?
> 
> kernel-arm-netbook for instance.
> 
I have a desktop, but I am running 32-bit.  In that case, I need the
server kernel.  The installer knows to do that.  Kira says I
misunderstood about the ARM kernel.

There is kernel-netbook and kernel-tmb-laptop in the repos.  There is
also a kernel-tmb-desktop, that they recommend if you prefer
performance over battery life. I suspect that if you don't need the
tmb version, you use the ordinary desktop kernel for a laptop, but it
is outside my experience.

You haven't said which hardware you have, but I am guessing it is a
netbook.

Doug.