Re: Debian and Pentium 4

2001-01-05 Thread D-Man
www.linux.com/hardware/newsitem.phtml?sid=26&aid=11457 Very interesting article. Shows why working together and free updates are important to quality systems. -D On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:37:39PM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: | I can't get to linux.com just now to find the article but basically

Re: Debian and Pentium 4

2001-01-05 Thread Hall Stevenson
> One of our profs bought a Dell 8100 Pentium 4 for > home use and he wants to install Linux on it. He > would like to install Debian, but he says that Debian > doesn't support the Pentium 4 yet. Is this true? I think it will work just fine. The problem occurs when a program (or the kernel) trie

Re: Debian and Pentium 4

2001-01-05 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # The german magazine "c't" (http://www.heise.de/ct) explitely says that # there is no problem with Debian and the Pentium 4 on the Dell # Dimension 8100. # RedHat and Suse caused some problems. That's probably because Debian uses(at last check) 2.2.1

Re: Debian and Pentium 4

2001-01-05 Thread Ray Percival
I can't get to linux.com just now to find the article but basically it is Microshaft's fault. It seems that had Intel used the same versioning for cpuid that they have used up untill now it would have broken NT/2000 in a very bad way. (All the details are in the linux.com article I can't seem to ge

Re: Debian and Pentium 4

2001-01-05 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:22:20PM -0600, Kay Nettle wrote: > One of our profs bought a Dell 8100 Pentium 4 for home use and he > wants to install Linux on it. He would like to install Debian, but > he says that Debian doesn't support the Pentium 4 yet. Is this true? The german magazine "c't

Re: Debian and Pentium 4

2000-12-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > >From Linuxgram Issue No 147 is this piece titled "Most Linux Cuts Won't > Install on Pentium 4." Quoting: "In another one of those awkward little > moments that we have come to expect from Intel, the chip giant has confirmed > that only Red Hat and TurboLinux can be