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Re: kernel-image-x.x.xx-i686-smc ? What's the smc stand for?



On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 01:25:00AM +0100, robin wrote:
> Eric Dickner wrote:
> 
> >And how can I tell if I have a plain i686 machine or
> >an i686-smc one?
> >
> Do you mean smp? If so its symmtric multi-processing ie dual processor, 
> quad processor

Something to note: If you have one processor, but it as advertised as
"dual-core" or "HyperThreading", then you should use i686-smp in order
to use the features.

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