On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:04:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > thoughts: there are distros that hold your hand already. > > > > There's also Windows. For just in case Ubuntu doesn't hold enough of your > > hand. > > Oh right, what was I thinking, giving the users an optional tool to make > their lives marginally easier after they've tired of trying to remember for > their thirtieth install just which of these inane x86 SIMD instructions are > supported by cpu x? I'm rolling my eyes over here, guys; that was uncalled > for and you know it.
remember? a short look into /proc/cpuinfo tells you that. Or just: if it is amd, it has 3dnow. Everything recent has sse and sse2. SSE3,4,ssse3 - check cpuinfo. > > Then again, it might be egg on my face for thinking that civilised > discourse was possible on a mailing list. :/ well, it is civilised. Nobody did a personal attack. But if you think you are attacked because people disagree with you or don't think that your idea is a good one - well.. then you should not be part of discussions, true.