[tlinux-users:07425] Re: [SPAM] install Mandrake in G20

Rex Buddenberg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.toshiba
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Don't agree with the previous posters...

If you're  brand new, I'd recommend pulling the Knoppix distribution. 
Live CD, doesn't touch the hard drive, meaning it's pretty harmless.   

In distributions, i386 generally means all versions of 32 bit Intel
chips.  485 and 586 variants have supersets of the instruction set so
anything that works for a 386 chip will definitely work if your machine
happens to have a more recent CPU ... it just won't use some of the
newer opcodes.  The reverse isn't quite always the case...  But if you
have a 32 bit Intel CPU (which covers the vast majority of us), you
don't want the Mac (ppc) or HP or SPARC or 64-bit Intel (x86_64) or ... 
distributions.  



On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 22:20:10 +0000 (GMT)
Konstantinos Livanios <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hallo linuxusers,
> 
> I am a new user and I would like to know welche
> version can I use mit my pc???What is iso oder
> i386,486,586...??
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