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On 29/12/99 at 10:37 Brian Ivey wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>I am fairly new to Linux/RedHat. I've been trying to follow this thread,
but
>do not understand it.
>
>Could someone please explain why a 686 distribution is needed?
its not really needed, but may be explained this way.....after using Linux
for a little while, you will probably become a power user and have your
system doing all sorts of things, also you will possibly want to squeeze
the most performance from the system so it runs at its fastest. to do this
the software packages as RPMs can be rebuilt and "blueprinted" if you like
for optimum performance against a given CPU type
How it would
>be different from the normal RedHat distribution?
faster........
>
>Thanks,
>Brian Ivey
>
I can hear...."why don't Redhat do it themselves" , its a good question,
Bernhards post may give some insight here, also RH need to cover a very
wide base, and really don't need to confuse things for newcomers
possibly....
Regards
Greg Wright
IT Consultant Sydney Australia
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