On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 12:59, rowland wrote: > On Saturday 22 Mar 2003 7:29 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > Actually this bug is a bug in the arch of the cpu it reports itself as > > an i686 even though it's i586 .... this is a bug in the hardware not > > necessarily in the kernel. > ok there is a bug in C3 cpu, but this would not be a problem if an OS that > claimed to be for an i586 cpu did not have that directory /lib/i686. If the > directory had not been there in the first place, mandrake 9.0 would not have > been tried on epia based pc's by newbies and then rejected/badmouthed as > useless because it will not load without jumping through hoops! > This gives linux a bad name it does not need or deserve. > rowland penny
True but on the other hand without the i686 directory I wouldn't be sending this e-mail.. I'm running on a celeron 500mhz. RH SuSE and Slack all know how to install the i686 optimized kernel and libs so I work better here. RH is i386 SuSE is i586 and Slack is well, Slack. Having the i686 libs if fine and needed if you need the i686 kernel.. I do. >
