Actually, the P4 is quite different than the PPro -- but the P2 and P3 are very close to the PPro. Regarding someone else's comments in a different message: The performance issues with the P4 have been shown (at tomshardware.com) to pretty much "go away" if the application is recompiled natively for the P4 cpu. In other words, you will probably get better performance out of the various distros on a P2 or P3 than a P4, unless you recompile your kernel and ALL your apps :-( Also, the AMD chips (Athlon, Duron) will likely perform better than any P4 and P3 of the same or similar speed rating (see aceshardware.com). Nevertheless, any Linux distro *should* run on a P4. Dave At 04:51 PM 11/28/2000 -0600, you wrote: >most distributions are 386, or 486 compiled. the Pentium 4 is little more >than the PPro architecutre, which the kernel optimizes just fine for.. the >only distro that comes with all pentium-optimized (pgcc) binaries, is >mandrake, and it shows, i think it's the most unstable distro out there. > >Thank You, > Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net) > >*-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] >| Unix/Linux Consulting | [ Haiku Error Message: ] >| PC/Mac Repair | [ Chaos reigns within. ] >| Networking | [ Reflect, repent, and reboot. ] >| http://nerp.net | [ Order shall return. ] >*-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] > > "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." > >On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Steve Siegfried wrote: > > > > > Anyone know what kernel versions do/don't run "native mode" (as opposed > > to "i386") on a Pentium 4? > > > > How about full Linux releases? > > > > thanks, > > > > -S > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at lists.real-time.com >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list Dave Sherman SoftServ Business Systems, Inc. "Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."