Re: moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686

2014-11-28 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The answers to your questions depend on what hardware you're using, what kind of processor, how many RAM. Concerning the CPU, the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo would give some insight. -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686

2014-11-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:35:46PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Pascal Hambourg writes: > > > Harry Putnam a écrit : > >> > >> My question is whether continuing to use the 486 versions of kernels > >> has any down sides? > > > > The -486 kernel lacks support for multiprocessing/hyperthread

Re: moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686

2014-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Pascal Hambourg writes: > Harry Putnam a écrit : >> >> My question is whether continuing to use the 486 versions of kernels >> has any down sides? > > The -486 kernel lacks support for multiprocessing/hyperthreading and PAE > (which is required for NX/XD bit). I see in my latest `full-upgrade'

Re: moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686

2014-11-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Harry Putnam a écrit : > > My question is whether continuing to use the 486 versions of kernels > has any down sides? The -486 kernel lacks support for multiprocessing/hyperthreading and PAE (which is required for NX/XD bit). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686

2014-11-22 Thread Gary Dale
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

moving from 3.16-3-486 to 686

2014-11-22 Thread Harry Putnam
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 d