Guest ndeb Posted March 28, 2003 Report Share Posted March 28, 2003 SuSE has gone the i586 way now, starting from their 8.1 release, as per ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.1/suse . Since SuSE is not freely downloadable, I really hope that redhat also does the same soon. After all, if mandrake goes down, redhat will be my next choice and I would always prefer an i586 distro to an i386 one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willisoften Posted March 28, 2003 Report Share Posted March 28, 2003 I had redhat on this machine slow laptop and it was slow but I had Slackware 9.0 (i386) on it too and it was quite nippy. Optimising for a particular archetictecture probably makes a difference but I'm not sure it's worth worrying about. Though I'd probably pick SuSe over Slackware if I had too. Slackware lasted all of two days! It was quicker than 9.1 though I have more services running now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted March 28, 2003 Report Share Posted March 28, 2003 Optimising for a particular archetictecture probably makes a difference but I'm not sure it's worth worrying about.Its definitely worth a try, particularly, when you are running servers and multimedia apps (particularly, video). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted March 28, 2003 Report Share Posted March 28, 2003 Well it's about time.. I mean.. I think the minimum usable computer nowadays is a pentium. Anyway, I heard that optimizing from 386 to pentium gives the most change in performance. Optimizing it even more to i686 give a lot less performance increase. I am not sure about athlon though.. I heard optimizing it for athlon makes it really zippy. But i586 seems to be the best compromise between performance and global compatibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted March 28, 2003 Report Share Posted March 28, 2003 I have to agree with DragonMage. About athlons, athlon-specific optimizations definitely increase performance over i586. Thats one reason why gentoo is getting so popular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willisoften Posted March 29, 2003 Report Share Posted March 29, 2003 I'm not really in a position to make an honest comparison as my installs of RedHat 8 Slackware 9.0 and Mandrake 9.1 have all been different I've had the most services running under Mandrake which probably slows it down a good bit. I'm never that consistent in my opinions either! I wanted to play DVD's on my desktop a while ago and I eventually go libdvd_whatever for K7 and playback was much better. Wish I could remember where! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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