Re: How does Athlon 64 compare under linux to Pentiums ?

[Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it>]

Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (25/03/05 04:29), Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 10:23 +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
> >
> > > A friend of mine wants to build a system with:
> > >
> > > 1) Athlon 64 3500+
> > >
> > > 2) DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR (nVidia nFroce4 chipset IIRC)
> > >
> > > How do these critters fare under Linux ?
> >
> > Sounds like a winner to me.  Go read, though, the debian-amd64
> > archives.  Anything that's tied[1] to 32 bits won't be able to 
> > run, or will have to run a chroot.  There are supposed to be simple
> > instructions to do this, but I've never seen them.
> >
> > [1] A partial list.  You may not care about any or all of them.
> > ndiswrapper
> > w32codecs
> > OpenOffice.org 1.1
> > Acroread
> > Shockwave Plugin
> > Java Plugin for Mozilla
> > Wine/Crossover Office.
> > Certain binary NIC & wireless drivers
>
> Have a look at debian-amd64 mailing list.  The how to is:
> https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id220463
>
> Setting up the chroot is pretty straightforward (it is the first time
> I'd dabbled in chroot).  To sum up, the system flies ;)
>
> Regards
>
> Clive

Clive a Ron thank you. Happy Easter to you and your beloved.

What does chroot have to do ? In my abysnal ignorance chroot was a way 
to fence a process in a subset of the original filesystem, like in some 
FTP servers for instance ... I will research on google :)

Take care,
Bob