Author: Fintan Gaughan Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Fedora Core 6 confusion on download page
On 06/02/07, James Ashburner <hantslug@???> wrote: > Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> > I have been using fedora for a long time and this site unoffical
> > fedora faq alway helped me alot.http://www.fedorafaq.org/#about > > In the instalation page to figure out which to download on unoffical
> > fedora ( i have a sempron )
> >
> > i386 - If you have a Pentium or Celeron (meaning any Pentium or
> > Celeron, including a Pentium 4, Pentium M, etc.)
> > x86_64 - If you have a Core Duo, Core Solo, Opteron, Athlon 64,
> > Turion 64, or Sempron. (This also includes the new "Intel Mac"
> > machines.)
> > * ppc - Any modern Mac that's not an Intel Mac.
> >
> >
> > BUT on the offical fedora
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/install-guide/fc6/en/ch-hwarchitecture.html > > i386 ---Intel x86-compatible processors, including Intel Pentium and
> > Pentium-MMX, Pentium Pro, Pentium-II, Pentium-III, Celeron, Pentium 4,
> > Xeon, Core Duo, and Centrino/Centrino Duo; VIA C3/C3-m and
> > Eden/Eden-N; and AMD Athlon, AthlonXP, Duron, AthlonMP, Sempron, and
> > Turion
> > ppc ----PowerPC processors, such as those found in Apple Power
> > Macintosh, G3, G4, and G5, and IBM pSeries systems
> > x86_64 ---64-bit AMD processors such as Athlon64/FX/X2, Turion64,
> > Opteron; and Intel 64-bit processors such as EM64T
> >
> > i find the unoffical a great help but only noticed the differnt in the
> > downlaod section am i right thinking fedora site is correct
> >
>
> I think the unofficial site is making the incorrect assumption that all
> Sempron CPUs are 64-bit, this is not the case.
>
