On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:54:21 -0500 Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > At Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:19:22 -0800 CentOS mailing list > <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > > > On 01/09/11 11:09 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > > And highly, highly recommended to use a kernel optimized for i686 > > > if that's your real architecture: there's a big performance > > > difference. > > > > since the last mainstream i586 CPU was the original Pentium > > (60-133Mhz) and Pentium/MMX (up to 200Mhz?), and everything since > > Pentium Pro, including Pentium-II and newer, has been i686, its a > > no brainer. > > Don't forget AMD's K6 processors -- these are also i586 processors. I have an AMD K6 that won't boot Fedora 7 (or later) due to missing some bit of architecture (I forget specifics, sorry...). So I suspect it's not truly an i586 processor? (fwiw, It did boot and install Linux Mint 9, LXDE however.) I didn't know the difference 10 years ago when I bought it, though it had Win98 installed which was fine back then... Now it's barely adequate as a print server.