Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] CD for testing laptops
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:38:35
Message-Id: AANLkTiklWsNP6pmb4DRLqFRrZHmpuR6utNYxaZP0r06z@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] CD for testing laptops by Florian Philipp
1 On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Florian Philipp
2 <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:
3 > Am 30.06.2010 18:25, schrieb Paul Hartman:
4 >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:38 AM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 >>> hello,
6 >>>
7 >>> Well, there are lots of local sales on laptops.
8 >>> It's been a few years and much has changed (that I'm not up on
9 >>> with boot CDs). Naturally, I'd like gentoo/kde on a boot
10 >>> cd, but then there are different images for AMD and intel arches.
11 >>
12 >> Not AMD and intel arches, just 32-bit and 64-bit instruction sets.
13 >> "amd64" is what gentoo calls their x86_64, x64, whatever, it will work
14 >> on any modern intel CPU since the Pentium4. Unless you're looking at
15 >> ancient laptops amd64 is the one you want.
16 >>
17 >
18 > You forget about Intel Atoms which are still partly i686 flavored. Of
19 > course, this point is mostly mood because these systems don't usually
20 > come with an optical drive.
21
22 I don't think of laptops having Atom, more netbooks/mobile device. :)
23 But you are right, of course.