$HOSTTYPE and related topics.

[Alexandre Strube]

Em Seg, 2004-01-12 às 04:34, Matt escreveu:

> Just a couple trivial queries here. I have an AMD Athlon Thunderbird CPU
> and my $HOSTTYPE is currently "i386". I thought it would have been
> either "i686" or maybe even "athlon"? I realise the machine architecture
> is an i386 compatible but I thought the exact architecture would have
> been more appropriate. `arch` correctly reports "i686". 
> Related is the $MACHTYPE. It's set to "i386-redhat-linux-gnu". Again,
> should this not contain i686? Also, are there plans to change this to
> fedora? i.e. "i686-fedora-linux-gnu". 
> Lastly, is it safe to change these values myself? Or do certain apps
> rely on them being the values originally set? 

Take a look at which kernel version you're using...

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