On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 15:52, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > If you're going to install Linux on it, use one of those variant Linux > distributions and NOT Red Hat 8.x or Mandrake 9.x ! You cannot even boot them > since they're optimized for i586 - and your Cyrix barely passes the 486 > (although it's officially called himself a "pentium" clone)...
To be more exact, the Cyrix is a "generic 586" processor, which is like the Pentium but lacking the TSC register, which only matters to the kernel anyway. As far as I know, it should run all 586-optimized code. -- Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.hectic.net/ UIN 188956 PGP 0xEC5D619D / E1 F2 7B 6C A0 31 80 28 63 B8 02 BA 65 C7 8B BA ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
