From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 13 06:28:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441F716A41C for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 06:28:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF9543D48 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 06:28:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so54448wri for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 23:28:25 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FhHdnufzyt/wOQgbIr6P2K7H7Q0TootWHcz+52jPf9rR9lQPODuzuOgNgNIj2TubKE+qFhHgM8DgLiTG8BuGUdFmFz8KRTprpVvVmhBRZJOuIwA0CyHv8qbWPXSSk9ODKxUfpXHwWqQmpwzQ4zkfUzZIHbtKN09ItCSHk6OmqCQ= Received: by 10.54.29.23 with SMTP id c23mr2602734wrc; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 23:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.124.2 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 23:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 01:28:25 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton To: nosehouse@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <20050607123103.49021.qmail@web52306.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050607123103.49021.qmail@web52306.mail.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Celeron X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Nikolas Britton List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 06:28:26 -0000 On 6/7/05, Nosehouse wrote: > Hello FreeBSD :D > A question and I'm out: I have an old pc, running on a 300 MHz Intel Cele= ron CPU, on an Intel MOBO. Now, what platform should I choose from your sit= e: Alpha, i386? And also for and AMD Athlon XP 2600+ with an Asus A7V600-X,= what distribution? > Thanks! >=20 >=20 FreeBSD is an operating system, Linux is a distribution. The Alpha release is for the DEC I mean Compaq I mean HP Alpha CPU. This CPU was, and still is, one of the best CPUs ever made. Unfortunately Carly ("was" CEO of HP), the bitch, killed it off when HP bought out Compaq. AMD bought some of the rights to the Alpha, there current chips have some Alpha blood inside them. AMD, VIA C3, and Intel Chips are all x86. The current x86 chips operate in 32-bit protected mode, the first Intel CPU that had this feature was the 80386, hence the i386. "Because of the high degree of compatibility, the range of processors compatible with the 80386 is often collectively termed the i386 architecture; the instruction set for the architecture is now known as IA-32 or, informally, i386." -Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/i386 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CISC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC