Star Red Hat Linux 9 Review
Linked by paul pianta on Wed 2nd Apr 2003 17:43 UTC
Red Hat This is by no means a technical review - it is just a summary of my experience as I was going along, installing and configuring a Red Hat Linux 9 machine. I installed the standard "workstation" installation on my 2 year old desktop machine. I like Gnome at home, KDE at work, but this review only covers my experience with the default Gnome installation.
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re: 1386 or i686
by Anonymous on Thu 3rd Apr 2003 08:29 UTC

>i think this may speed up x and a small handful of apps
You think wrong. Redhat optimizes for i686, but only uses the i386 instruction set, except for glibc and ther kernel. The diffrence between optimizing for i686 and use i386 instructions only and also use i686 instructions is very, very, very small. Atleast until gcc learns how to use SSE and mmx. (Yes, gcc supports sse/mmx similar to day, but only as a possibility to the programmer, it doesn't take stock C code and use sse/mmx if appropriate.)