Fedora Core 5 freezes on Dell Dimension E510

[Don Levey]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 10:58 -0400, Matt Shields wrote:
        > You're running servers, right?  Not running any desktop
        applications.  My personal hosted server is a dual core running
        CentOS 4.3 x86_64 and all the server applications are fine.
        > 
        > My question was more about Desktop Linux and Dual Core and
        whether it's a waste of money.  For example, even if I get FC5
        64bit to install and run X.  There is no Macromedia Flash
        support for 64bit linux.  And there are a lot of other
        applications.
        
        For what it's worth, I'm running a dual-core Acer notebook
        without these freezes (those are reserved for the AMD machine at
        home...).  I'm running the x86 SMP kernel (and it's nice and
        zippy) because it honestly hadn't occurred to me to run the
        x86_64.
         -Don