[plug] AMD Athlon

[James Elliott]

thanks Ben

James Elliott
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Jensz" <jensz at wn.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Windows upgrades for people and Macs


> > I was wondering how "current" I should go with regard to Linux
> > compatibility.  What I mean is that Linux RH 7.1 is obvioulsy compatible
> > with my old AMD K6 233 but would Red Hat 7.3, which Paul is sending me,
be
> > written to accommodate and use all the features of an AMD 1800XP Athlon
> CPU
> > (1.8 GHz) ... or isn't this an issue?
>
>
> Two machines which I run as games server machines are running Athlon
T-Bird
> CPUs.  One a 1Ghz T-Bird and was running Red Hat 6.2 for about 6 months,
> without any compatibility problems (though it wasn't running the stock RH
> 2.2 kernel, that was the first thing that was updated).  Now that machine
> and a T-Bird 1.2Ghz machine both run Red Hat 7.2 fine with no problems
> whatsoever.
>
> I'm yet to install Linux onto my Athlon XP 1600+ at home, but I wouldn't
> think there would be any compatibility issues with a recent distribution
of
> linux on it.
>
>
> / Ben
>
>