[svlug] [Volunteers] Question for the next Linux Conference on Oct, 15th.

[Rick Moen]

Quoting James Sparenberg (james at linuxrebel.org):

> The only problem I've ever seen/heard of was about 3 years ago.   Early
> on the Via CPU's where getting detected as i686 when what they really
> are is i586 with a lot of i486 instructions.   (go figure)  So the i686
> compile kernel would throw them into a kernel panic upon first boot from
> HDD.  However if you distro is less than a year old.  .... it should
> work without a hitch.  

Yep, that's the glitch I was trying to think of.  It's definitely
long gone.

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