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Are all of the New Releases of Linux (RedHat, Slackware, Debian, etc)
optimized for Pentium machines? I've been looking at a CD pack on
cheapbytes, and if all of this isn't going to run that well on my 486
then I'm wondering what would be my point of getting these later
releases. The version of RedHat that I'm running works fine, but...It
would be nice to have the later libraries for some programs that I would
like to run. Trying to ftp them has been very disappointing, due to my
ISP and stalls on ftp.

Thanks for any information you can provide.

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Quote:>                                 I've been looking at a CD pack on
> cheapbytes, and if all of this isn't going to run that well on my 486

Usually programs "built for Pentium" will not run on older processors.

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Quote:> I've been looking at a CD pack on
> cheapbytes, and if all of this isn't going to run that well on my 486
> then I'm wondering what would be my point of getting these later
> releases.

Quote:> The version of RedHat that I'm running works fine, but...It
> would be nice to have the later libraries for some programs that I would
> like to run.

Quote:> Trying to ftp them has been very disappointing, due to my
> ISP and stalls on ftp.

> Thanks for any information you can provide.

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> Pat - La Grande,OR. - ppridgen <at> greencis <dot> net
> http://www.greencis.net/~ppridgen
> RedHat 5.2 - Warp 3.0 FixPak 40 dual boot. Windows??...bwahahahaha

Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208

Quote:Pat Pridgen writes:
> Are all of the New Releases of Linux (RedHat, Slackware, Debian, etc)
> optimized for Pentium machines?

Quote:>Pat Pridgen writes:
>> Are all of the New Releases of Linux (RedHat, Slackware, Debian, etc)
>> optimized for Pentium machines?

Quote:> Are all of the New Releases of Linux (RedHat, Slackware, Debian, etc)
> optimized for Pentium machines?

Mandrake is the only one I know of that is.

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Quote:> The major problem with the more recent releases is that they
> require considerably more disk space.  If you have limited disk
> space, you may have to work hard to get a collection of packages
> which fit on your machine.

Now I'm running with about 1.1 gig on SuSE 6.2.
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be advised that i586 is classic pentium and classic pentium mmx.  the
i586 is a weird beast and optimized code for the i586 will not run as
well on other machines.

i686 machines (pentiumpro, pentium-ii, pentium-iii, xeon, celeron) are
*hurt* by scheduling for i586 as opposed to scheduling for anything
else, e.g., i486 (which most distributions do), nevermind actually
targetting i686 proper.

running benchmarks (from gcc-2.95.2 code) on my pentium pro generally
say things like

target     time units
i386          1.05
i486          1.01
i586          1.20
i686          1.00

thus it doesn't matter if the target is i486 or i686, but i586 slows
me down by 20%.

mandrake's targeting of i586 is actually bad for anyone without a
classic pentium.  i am baffled as to why they do it.   the last
classic was made over two years ago.

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Quote:> running benchmarks (from gcc-2.95.2 code) on my pentium pro generally
> say things like

> target     time units
> i386          1.05
> i486          1.01
> i586          1.20
> i686          1.00

> thus it doesn't matter if the target is i486 or i686, but i586 slows
> me down by 20%.

> mandrake's targeting of i586 is actually bad for anyone without a
> classic pentium.  i am baffled as to why they do it.   the last
> classic was made over two years ago.

O. Wyss

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