On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, James Wilkinson wrote: > Shardul Vyas wrote: > > i read for kernel 2.2 specifications-- > > > > "AMD K6 is not supported" > > Erm -- what? Where? > > Mike Burger wrote: > > Fedora Core doesn't make use of the 2.2 kernel...it uses 2.4 (FC1) or 2.6 > > (FC2/3). > > > > I wouldn't go back to a 2.2 kernel, at this point. > > True. But even if there was a problem with 2.2 and the K6 at one point > (and I never heard of it), it didn't last long. The K6 came out in 1997, > the K6-2 in 1998, and 2.4 came out right at the end of 2000, if I recall > correctly. As I recall, though, the initial message mentioned Fedora...ah, here it is: "i already have fedora core installed on my AMD K6(3D now)machine." Although, looking at it, now, I note the 3DNow notation, and I don't recall that being available on the K6 line...he may well have a K7 (Athlon/Duron) and just misnomered. > The K6 was a fine processor. It's a bit slow by today's standards, but > unless you want to do lots of compiling or CPU-intensive stuff, it > should do you fine (unless you've got one of the SiS support > chipsets...) I'm running FC1 as a firewall on a K6-350. As you said, slow by today's standards, but for a dedicated firewall machine, it's better than the P5-200MMX that it replaced. <Wink> -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
