[plug] AMD Athlon

[William Kenworthy]

You can run into problems the other way though - RH6.2 does not know
about P4's and wouldnt install - as of 12 months or so ago (When I
queried RH, they were not sure whether they would release a patch for
such an old version ...).

BillK

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 14:15, James Elliott wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> 
>