WHICH KERNEL

Gene C. czar at czarc.net
Tue Mar 9 13:59:27 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 09 March 2004 05:53, David McCormick wrote:
> I am using FC-1 on a AMD64 FX machine and would like to update the
> Kernel. Do I use the x86_64 RPM, i686,i586, or i386 kernel?  I thought
> that the x86_64 kernel would only be for the FC-1-x86_64 OS.  I like the
> FC-1-x86_64 OS but can't use one program without loading a large group
> of 32 bit librarys so I am sticking with the 32 bit for now.

The kernel in the FC1 x86_64 distribution is the latest kernel ... 
2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.  The kernel is the x86_64 kernel ... this is really 
defines the system as a x86_64 system ... the applications supported can be 
32 bit or 64 bit applications.
-- 
Gene





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