RPM packages: Athlon vs i686 vs i386

Alexandre Strube surak at casa.surak.eti.br
Fri Mar 12 02:50:25 UTC 2004


Em Seg, 2004-03-08 às 03:25, thedogfarted escreveu:
> If you use yum there is no need to specify processor, yum will choose 
> the one that fits best. If you have athlon as i do then imho athlon rpms 
> are prefered over i686 and i686 over i386, at least that's how yum is doing.

We are talking about a performance gain which won't probably ever be
noticed.

What's the "smallest" kernel for fedora anyway? I would like to install
it on some 486s to make them terminals...



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