quad cores?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Monday 01 October 2007 08:46:39 am Matthew Gillen wrote:
> Stephen Adler wrote:
> > Well, with all this VMWaring I've been doing on my desktop, I've come to
> > realize that my 2.8GHz intel D (i.e. old style dual core) just doesn't
> > seem to have the punch that my macbook (solid core 2 duo platform) has.
> > So maybe it's time to upgrade. But as I go out and look around at the
> > latest CPU's, I see that Intel is out with the core 2 quad! Any comments
> > on this new processor? Do I have to run fedora core 8 on it or something
> > like that?
>
> You could run Redhat 7.3 SMP on it if you wanted, and it would take
> advantage of all the processors.  (there might be issues with the 64-bit or
> ide-chipset support with a kernel from that long ago, but my point is that
> it's basically using the same SMP basics that linux has supported forever).

Yeah, um, Red Hat Linux 7.3's kernel-smp would most certainly NOT work on a 
core 2 quad... However, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5 with their latest 
kernels all work, as should Fedora Core 5 and later with their latest 
kernels.

I currently run Fedora 7 on my own core 2 quad desktop here at work, and 
previously ran FC6 on it, no problems whatsoever.

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Jarod Wilson
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