x86 question

[sdk]

Hey people, im using linux and want to install some programs but i dont know if my chipset is an i386 or an i586 which are the 2 rpms available. My proccesor is a pentium 4 2.5ghz and im assuming its i386 but i want to ask you guys before i try anything thank you.

[Vickip]

Tell me name/maker/model of your motherboard....

[bailey]

p4's are i586

[sdk]

its a vaio motherboard made by sony the whole comp is one of thier dvd creation line of pc's the ones with the dvd writer and all i dont know the model number cause im not at the comp right now but i know it takes ddr ram thats speed is 333. and its upgradable to 3.0ghz proccesor but no hyperthreading.

[Vickip]

Bailey got it....Somehow...I missed the P4 part...guess I'm gonna have to forget about building another new computer and buy glasses...

[bailey]

I have red hat ver 9.0 running on a p4 2.5 system right now dual booting with xp-pro, my other system

[crouse]

http://www.shaolinmicro.com/support/.../soft_req.html

i686, Intel Celeron, Pentium II/III/IV/Xeon, AMD Athlon, Duron, VIA C3-II
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i586, Intel Pentium/MMX, Cyrix 5x86, IBM 6x86, AMD K6, Via C3 and Winchip
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i486, Intel 80486
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i386, All Intel 80386 compatible.

[bailey]

dang it anyway
off by one
sorry

[paul9]

anything 386 or above will run the i386 binaries, however the i586 are pentium and above and are optimized to run better than the i386 stuff on newer processors

[Peter M]

The Pentium (i586) binaries are optimized to run faster on modern processors, and they're also different - in that they require CPU features present in Pentium but absent in older stuff.

i686 binaries also run on Cyrix 6x86MX and MII, btw.

SuSE distribution dropped support for anything below i586 already.