Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Nov 2009 00:59 UTC
Despite reports to the contrary, current Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard builds do not support the Intel Atom processor. The report that support had returned is a fake, and the most recent build 10C540 still does not support the Atom processor. C'est tout.
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2005-07-11
What is special about the kernel that does not apply to the rest of the software stack?
When Atom chips first came out, most Linux distributions would not run on them. There were special projects which took normal Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu) and re-compiled everything with a special compiler flag. "
Most Linux distributions ran just fine on the original Atom netbooks. They are x86-compatible CPUs after all. However, there were no drivers for the chipsets that came with the CPUs. Thus, you couldn't use them to their fullest (no wireless, no graphics accel, etc). But the CPUs themselves were compatible.
I've had Debian Etch, and Kubuntu 8.04/8.10/9.04 running on Asus netbooks using Atom CPUs. The install ran just fine. What I could do after the install depended on the OS version, as some had drivers while others didn'.