As far as I know Intel keeps its future generations of processes fully
compatible with previous. So each application that ran on 386 will run on
Pentium 4. I don't see why there should be a problem with running Linux on
it. As was correctly pointed out you may not see the advantages: cause
currently the compilers do not support all the new sets of commands and
don't fully utilize the hardware support.
Thanks,
Gregory.
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 4:48 PM
To: Re'em Bensimhon
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on Pentium 4 ?
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Re'em Bensimhon wrote:
> The necessity of in might not be very high, but just out of curiosity,
> can one run Linux on a Pentium 4 driven system?
>
Yes, I saw Mandrake Linux installed on a Pentium 4.
I don't know if it works well (my feeling is that they did very little
beyond installing the system) but it sure wakes up and responds to
(trivial) commands.
Cheers, Avraham
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