Tosh wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> Hi Bill, >> >> On 05/23/2009 08:37 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: >> >>>>> Any comments on CentOS 5 on Intel Atom CPUs? >>>>> >> Something I totally left out in my last email - atleast 2 people have >> reported success using C5 on Atom. I've looked at one of the original >> intel reference platform kits, and things worked pretty much out of the box. >> > > I have a mail server running with an atom 230 processor (intel original > board), I installed it about a year ago and had to install the nic > driver 8101 manually > > One of our customers has around 20 kiosks with the atom 330 processors > (intel original board) runs out of the box with centos 5.3 > > technically there are just old celeron (pentium4 based) processors with > low energy consumption, so for the operating system it makes no real > difference, for your electricity bill it does > > > > intel atoms are not celerons..they are in order processors..the celerons are out of order superscalar processors. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3276&p=6 read the rest of the artiucle for full details