> One of our profs bought a Dell 8100 Pentium 4 for > home use and he wants to install Linux on it. He > would like to install Debian, but he says that Debian > doesn't support the Pentium 4 yet. Is this true?
I think it will work just fine. The problem occurs when a program (or the kernel) tries to determine what CPU is installed). On RedHat, Mandrake, and others, during initial install, they try to find out what CPU in there and install a "custom" kernel, optimized for that CPU vs just using the plain, compiled for i386 CPUs. As long as Debian's kernel is not "optimized" for a particular CPU, he'll be okay. Regards Hall
