586 vs 686

Mike Chambers mike at miketc.net
Thu Feb 19 10:55:27 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 10:25 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:

> If your running a 32bit OS (most intel desktop/server systems are
> 64bit now) you get a i686 kernel if your system supports PAE and an
> i586 kernel if your system doesn't. There was a large discussion about
> this in fedora-devel.

Mine is a lower end HP system I guess, with max of 4G ram (currently
only using 2G).  So I am assuming this isn't a PAE type system?

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Mike Chambers
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