Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 23:37:21 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is there an i686 version? Message-ID: <20010912233721.A29072@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <000001c13c0c$71e98cd0$3000a8c0@sickness> References: <000001c13c0c$71e98cd0$3000a8c0@sickness>
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In the last episode (Sep 13), David Loszewski said: > I just noticed at my login prompt it says, 'FreeBSD/i386', this is > version 4.3 from the iso, is there a FreeBSD/i686 that anyone is > aware of since I would assume that this would speed things up. i386 refers to the architecture, not the specific processor type. Your two choices at the moment are FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha. The GENERIC kernel has optimizations builtin for 486, 586, and 686 already. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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