RE: [expert] AMD Chips and Mandrake

[John Aldrich]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> I have had complaints from customers about the fact that mandrake is
> compiled for the Pentium class systems when using an Athlon.  Have any of
> you had the same problem.  My experience is with the K6-2 and K6-3.  I want
> to install on an Athlon but have my doubts.  Any comments is appriciated.
> 
An Athlon *IS* a 586-class CPU (or better.) IT should work
just fine. Matter of fact, a friend of mine was having
problems with his Windows box on his Athlon, but worked
beauftifully under Linux. :-)
        John