> The Athlon should run Linux fine. It doesn't have any optimizations from a kernel
> standpoint, but that'll come in time.
They are in 2.3.x. I have 2.2.x patches but they arent generally available.
> If you get an athlon, you're going to be paying for floating point performance,
> and not neccessarily everyday speed. You can save yourself a tremendous amount of
> money by purchasing a Celeron 550, that'll whoop a p3 550, sans coppermine.
The Athlon is faster on both integer, memory bandwidth and fpu, but a celeron
isnt that much slower and is a lot cheaper.
