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hi evryone

i couldent find an intorductions thread so i thought i would post here, ive been pokeing around and i couldent find any information that may help me but im not exactly sure where i should post, im trying to install leperd 10.0.6 on my…

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@purity Published 2010-06-11
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5,583 historical reads · 2 curated field notes (from 4 dispatches) · 2010-06-11 – 2010-12-09
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i couldent find an intorductions thread so i thought i would post here,

ive been pokeing around and i couldent find any information that may help me but im not exactly sure where i should post, im trying to install leperd 10.0.6 on my machine
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Motherboard: Asus-A7S8X-MX BIOS: Phoenix - Award BIOS v6.00PG CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+, @1.9GHz RAM: 512MB Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

can some one give me some pointers

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2 technical responses curated from 4 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @lanceomni 2010-08-08

I am fairly certain that the Athlon XP CPU uses SSE instructions. You will need a CPU with at least SSE2 to have a shot at an install. Sorry.

Field Note #2 @Gateway 2010-12-09

just started in on my attempt at a gateway m7315u. Got it cheap, and so far all works minus the wifi and ethernet. Going to try a new distro and see what happens!

Glad to be here!

Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor1 T3200 (2.00GHz, 667MHz FSB,1MB L2)1
Memory 4096MB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2-2048 MB modules)
250GB 5400rpm Serial ATA
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500

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@lanceomniContributor12010-08-08
@GatewayContributor12010-12-09