Re: Athlon and Debian?
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On Wednesday 24 December 2003 10:21 am, 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
The Athlon XP (and other AMD's) cpu is x86 compatible. Once you do an
initial install there are kernel-images available for different CPU's,
686, 586, athlon etc. If you use dselect/aptitude you can look at the
different choices available.
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Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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