On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 13:21, Forest Fisher wrote: > I just got a new laptop for x-mas that runs on an AMD Athlon XP-M > Processor. I was hoping to run Debian on my new computer, but the > official webpage indicates that the latest release of Debian is not > supported by the Athlon architecture. Nonetheless, other webpages > (such as DebianPlanet.org) talk about an "Athlon Builder." I'm a > newbie, and I don't really understand what is meant by an Athlon > Builder. Does this mean that if I run the Athlon Builder I can run > Debian on my system or is there just no way to port Debian to my > computer? If the latter is true, does anyone know another GNU/Linux > OS that will run on an Athlon processor? Thanx a million, > > Forest (Note: Please set your mail client to wrap at around 78 columns or so for ease of reading.) I'm not aware of any Athlon-specific problems with debian. I don't know if the Athlon XP-M has certain problems, but my desktop has been running an Athlon XP 2000 processor for over a year now with no problems. I'm guessing that any Athlon-related problems you may have heard are probably about AMD's new 64-bit processor, though I don't really know much of anything about that. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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