[CentOS] Intel Atom systems?

Mon May 25 16:26:21 UTC 2009
William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>

Tosh wrote:
> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>   
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> On 05/23/2009 08:37 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
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>>>>> 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
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