[Mageia-discuss] Laptop or Desktop?

[Kristoffer Grundström]

2012-06-15 17:25, Doug Laidlaw skrev:
> 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.
I don't use my battery atm. I want it to live long. ;)