From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 12 21:37:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3757037B411 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:37:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f8D4bLA06119; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 23:37:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 23:37:21 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: David Loszewski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is there an i686 version? Message-ID: <20010912233721.A29072@dan.emsphone.com> References: <000001c13c0c$71e98cd0$3000a8c0@sickness> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c13c0c$71e98cd0$3000a8c0@sickness> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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