[LBo] More Problem with finding the right distro (Re: QnA Digest, Vol 11, Issue 2)

[Sam Morgan]

Allen wrote:

> Mint says it won't work on anything lower than a Pentium and I 
> think the K6's are more like 486s, plus they are AMD which they 
> don't mention supporting.
> 
this is incorrect
the K6's are the equivalent of the corresponding speed Pentium's

Intel would like you to believe that the AMD is an inferior cpu form,
but it's not!!!!

99.9% of anything that says runs on Pentium's will also run on AMD's

for reference see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86

<quote>
# fourth generation - first member is Intel 80486 (and derivatives), later 
multiple clones appeared

# fifth generation ("i586") - first member is Pentium (and derivatives), later 
appeared Nx586, 5x86, K5, WinChip, mP6

# sixth generation ("i686") - first member is Pentium Pro (and derivatives, 
including P6, Pentium II, Celeron (PII), Xeon (PII), Pentium III, Pentium M and 
Intel Core), later appeared 6x86, K6 (and derivatives K6-2, K6-III), C3, Crusoe

# seventh generation ("a786") - first member is Athlon (and derivatives), later 
appeared Pentium 4 (and derivatives, including NetBurst), C7, Efficeon

# eighth generation ("a886") - first member is Opteron (and derivatives, 
including Athlon 64), later appeared Xeon 5100 series (and derivates, including 
Core 2)
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