On 22/11/14 06:18 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Months ago, installing jessie as guest on win7-64, I somehow ended up
with a 486 kernel.
In other previous installs it was a 686 kernel... not sure what I
did. But no doubt I selected it without realizing or the like.
My question is whether continuing to use the 486 versions of kernels
has any down sides?
I haven't run into anything I noticed to be a problem related to
kernel version... but not sure I would be able to tell anyway.
My usage is as single user on home lan, light programming, email,
browse net, maybe small lan mail server.
So with that kind of light usage in mind... is there likely to be
anything that 686 offers that I'm likely to need?
Probably makes no difference. You might see a difference if you were
running heavy image processing or math. What makes a bigger difference
is the running of 32bit versus 64bit.
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