"Erin Wilkins" <[email protected]> schrieb am 2010-11-09 > Maarten Vanraes <[email protected]> wrote: > > the i686 _IS_ the default one for x86 cpus > > In the standard installer. But I believe ONE uses 586 to be able to run on > as wide a range of hardware as possible. Exactly! The problem is: the One shell run on all possible machines, so it uses the i586 kernel. And there just is not enough space on a CD image to put another kernel on it. When you're installing from a Free you get the best kernel for your system. With a 32bit system using less then approximately 4GB RAM you'll get the Desktop (i686) kernel, when using more you'll get the Server kernel.
Oliver
