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choasforages:
it can't do sse, it can do mmx and 3dnow.

DJ:
Now just trying to figure out what to do with these .rpm files, can't find any .iso files, Ok, so I'm new sue me  

Dj

Ice-9:
What would you like to try from Ximian?
It's not like you can "install" Ximian.

They have some stuff like Red Carpet and an excellent mail client "Evolution", but what would like to install?

Edit : as for the rpm packages you can install them with # rpm -Uvh nameofpackage.rpm or
# rpm -ivh nameofpackage.rpm
where -Uvh updates files if there are any files to update and -ivh just installs files without checking for files to update.

[ November 30, 2002: Message edited by: Ice9 ]

pkd_lives:
the terms ix86 can be thought in terms of version numbers - simple as that. The next step is the next release number. So yes according to Intel there is a requirement for i886 compatabilty for running P4, a bug that hit some early linux distributions like RH 6.2 fairly and squarly on the arse. But you are right in a sense, there has not been a huge amount of change between 686 and the latest. It's more been about manufacturing design changes than architecture changes with regards actual processing.

Of course they drop and add features same as software - the next release is not always better in every way, and indeed can be a step backwards, it's just the release is much more formalised.

And yes 3Dnow was why I got the K6 myself. It is a wonderfully fast and stable processor compared to my intel and cyrix experiences. It's just now getting too old. But the x86 architecture is really controlled by Intel (not sure about patents etc., or whether x86 is a controlled format), as AMD are playing catch up. The K6 was AMD's big play. It worked as well. They proved they could outperform a P1, in fact they can outperform a PII, but because the PII had some new tech in it the outperformance was short-lived - however they managed to build on it and are now a full blown competitor against intel - about time.

As for getting right inside the architecture, I really can't say because I don't know that much.

[ November 30, 2002: Message edited by: Linux Frank ]

Calum:

quote:Originally posted by Linux Frank:
It's just as Ice9 says. all for marketing reasons - research shows numbers scare people, but names make them feel safe, and incrementing the name with a version number convinces them that the product is getting better - so much for free thought.]
--- End quote ---


that's the reason that slackware went from version 3.9 (i think) straight to 7. All the other linux distros were up to 6 or 7 (suse's first release was version 5.2 i think!), and despite the fact that slackware had the same kernel as the other distros, people kept asking them when they would 'upgrade to linux 6'.

sad.
the biggest, and most ridiculous one is the enormous jump of 92.89 version numbers from windows 3.11 to windows 95!    :D

[ November 30, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

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