[plug] need to upgrade? -was Re: [plug] kmail and the gigasecond bug

[Steve Vertigan]

Bret Busby wrote:

> This Cyrix 6x86 is reated as being equivalent to about a pentium 75/90. It is a
> fair bit less than a P200.

Are you sure it's a 6x86?  CPUs aren't my strong point but my BSD box is
a cyrix 5x86 which is supposed to be about equivalent to a pentium 100. 
It's seems strange a 6x86 would be less powerful.

> Also, from memory, this CPU is supposed to use the 486 instruction set.

That's certainly the case with my cyrix 586.  Compiling things for 586
(pentium) will lead to problems with it.  As someone else pointed out
Mandrake is optimised for 586 out of the box so it would lead to
problems if your processor doesn't support that.

> We also have RH 6.2 installed on a 486 with 16MB RAM; one of the nodes of our
> LAN. we use two Cyrix 6x86's in our LAN. Does RH 7.x run on a 486? Does it run,
> with X-Windows, in 16MB RAM? Would your Mandrake 7.2 run on a 486 with 16MB
> RAM? Is Mandrake 7.2 any more recent than RH6.2?

The software included with a Mandrake release is generally equivalent to
or newer than the software included with the equivalent redhat version
number due to Mandrake originally being a redhat derivative although now
they tend to push the enveloope more than redhat with things like kde
and gnome.  So a machine that can run Mandrake 7.2 will obviously run
redhat 7.2.  As per Redhat running on 16 Mb RAM I don't use Redhat so if
you want it's hardware requirements I suggest looking at their website.
The post I replied to said you had 64 MB so I'm not sure why you're even
talking about 16 MB. 

Steve
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