F12 on a P4

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 11/20/2009 12:28 PM, stan wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:57:34 -0600
> Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> In the F12 Release notes it indicates that i586 support is gone in F12
>> and i686 is the the support available.
>>
>> Are there any implications of that to running F12 on a Pentium 4
>> machine?
> 
> I think that Pentium 4 was the start of the i686 regime for intel.  The
> P3 is a i586 device, as is the AMD K6 series.  The AMD Duron and Athlon
> were the start of i686 for that line.

*bzzzt*  WRONG

If what you said were true, then F12 couldn't be running on my 1GHz
PIII.  But, it *is* running.  And "uname -a" claims:

Linux linux.framingham.ma.us 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7
21:41:45 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

But, I agree that the AMD K6 *is* an i586.  (yeup, I have one of those too.)

> In other words, you are good to go.

Yes, if the PIII is i686, then the PIV is too.

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