Lord Kenneth Posted February 15, 2004 Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 What's the main difference between, say, the kernels with "smp", "enterprise", etc in their filename? My brother told me that smp is for multiple processors, but I don't know. Anyone care to enlighten me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 I'd listen to your brother more smp - symmetrical multiple processors. i.e., more than one enterprise - for computers with more than one meg of ram athlon - this should be self explanatory i386 - just about any x86 computer i686 - this one I am not totally sure about, but I believe it is for a PIII or certain classes of celerons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Confused.... Well the more you look the more confused you'll get.... This has been driving me crazy for a while.... On the face of it fuzzylizard is right but what else is different. For instance enterprise supports 4GB of RAM... so thats one compile setitng for HIMEM but, if I take the 'vanilla' Mandrake source and jusy compile with 4GB RAM I get a completely different kernel. Quite what Mandrake do with the compile.... I don't have a clue, what I do know is that if you dpownload say enterprise source and compile you don't get the same kernel as the enterprise one compiled by Mandrake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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