Linux Desktop Pocket Guide
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at redhat.com
Tue Nov 8 11:55:35 UTC 2005
Hi
>Could someone tell the author that this is not correct? This argument is
>so old and still wrong -- someone with a deep knowledge on the subject
>should write down the truth* into the wiki so we can point people to it.
>
>CU
>thl
>
>*that is afaik: Fedora is optimized for up to date processors like the
>Pentium 4 but still compatible with i386 (hence the i386 in the postfix
>in the rpmname). Compiling for i586 might even be slower than that was
>fedora does.
>
>
Not sure on reaching the author but information about optimization and
performance with reference to the i386 instruction set is available from:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraMyths
regards
Rahul
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