Well, if you're not planning on changing processors, you can probably go 
to the Athlon binaries and be happy.

If you think there's a chance that you might have to change hardware, you 
might want to stick with the i386/586 binaries for compatibility's sake.

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Cedric MARSOT wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> With an Athlon XP, Redhat installation , installed i686 binaries.
> Is it better to change kernel and binaries to Athlon or i586/386 ?
> 
> --
> Cedric
> 
> Quoting Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > You should be able to..in fact, you should be able to install i586 RPMs
> > on 
> > an Athlon system.  The trick comes if you try to install i686
> > binaries.
> > 
> > On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Gordon Stewart wrote:
> > 
> > > Dear List
> > > 
> > > Can you install i386 RPMs on an Athlon system?
> > > 
> > > Gordon 
> > > 
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