Re: Re: Micro ITX

["Quinten Uijldert" <yahoogroups@xxxxxxx>]

Ant Skelton wrote:

>> I'm also considering going to Linux for various reasons
>
> Choose your distribution with care then! Make sure it's one that
> supports the C3 processor. Other distros will assume it's a P3 and
> then barf, on account of it not supporting an optional instruction
> (CMOV if I remember correctly). This is actually a shortcoming in
the
> gcc compiler; there were some moves afoot a while ago to fix it,
but
> it all seems to have gone quiet.
>
> I'll have a dig around to see which are the known good distros.

I can confirm that both Red Hat 7.3 and Mandrake 8.2 work fine on the
VIA
800.

Q.

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