Author: James Ashburner Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Fedora Core 6 confusion on download page
Fintan Gaughan wrote: > I have been using fedora for a long time and this site unoffical
> fedora faq alway helped me alot.http://www.fedorafaq.org/#about > In the instalation page to figure out which to download on unoffical
> fedora ( i have a sempron )
>
> i386 - If you have a Pentium or Celeron (meaning any Pentium or
> Celeron, including a Pentium 4, Pentium M, etc.)
> x86_64 - If you have a Core Duo, Core Solo, Opteron, Athlon 64,
> Turion 64, or Sempron. (This also includes the new "Intel Mac"
> machines.)
> * ppc - Any modern Mac that's not an Intel Mac.
>
>
> BUT on the offical fedora
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/install-guide/fc6/en/ch-hwarchitecture.html > i386 ---Intel x86-compatible processors, including Intel Pentium and
> Pentium-MMX, Pentium Pro, Pentium-II, Pentium-III, Celeron, Pentium 4,
> Xeon, Core Duo, and Centrino/Centrino Duo; VIA C3/C3-m and
> Eden/Eden-N; and AMD Athlon, AthlonXP, Duron, AthlonMP, Sempron, and
> Turion
> ppc ----PowerPC processors, such as those found in Apple Power
> Macintosh, G3, G4, and G5, and IBM pSeries systems
> x86_64 ---64-bit AMD processors such as Athlon64/FX/X2, Turion64,
> Opteron; and Intel 64-bit processors such as EM64T
>
> i find the unoffical a great help but only noticed the differnt in the
> downlaod section am i right thinking fedora site is correct
>
I think the unofficial site is making the incorrect assumption that all
Sempron CPUs are 64-bit, this is not the case.