two Fedora 3's

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Thu Dec 2 21:51:10 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Gerhard Magnus wrote:

> When I boot into Fedora 3, the GRUB menu gives two options:
> Fedora 3 (2.6.9.1.667smp)
> Fedora 3-up (2.6.9-1.667)
> 
> What are these two versions and which should I be using?

Fedora 3 (2.6.9.1.667smp) <- SMP kernel (for multi processor/HyperThreading machines)
Fedora 3-up (2.6.9-1.667) <- Single (uni) procesor kernel.

Perhaps you have a P4 with Hyperthreading. You could just stick to the
'uniproc' kernel - to keep things simple.

Satish




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