On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Bruno Wolff III<bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:25:27 -0400, > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> I believe you need i686 or better to run f11. I suppose you could >> recompile everything for [345]86 processor, but I don't think it comes >> that way. And there may be some assumptions in scripts and commands that >> certain features are present. > > F11 runs on 586 processors. > Indeed. In fact, many packages came compiled that way. [jimc@harpo dev]$ rpm -qa |grep 586 |wc 1335 1335 40840 [jimc@harpo dev]$ rpm -qa |wc 1604 1604 50709 Whats not clear is why theyre not i686, even for the kernel itself. IIRC - i386 packages used to be default, but i686 kernels were always available, and they were installed by default on my boxes. I have the vague uneasy feeling that im losing 3-6 / PPM (parts per million) in performance ;-) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
