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01-25-2010, 04:14 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Germany
Posts: 779
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Originally Posted by 00010
Its a nice laptop, I got my Dev. Key but what I cant figure out is that if it does support SSE2 then how will I coax it to boot, you see it uses Open Firmware (like the old PPC macs).
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Just use the command I wrote above on Fedora, it will show you wether your CPU supports SSE2 or not. You might need to run it as root. Try using sudo or su.
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Originally Posted by 00010
But these machines support the Fedora 10, which I assume needs a computer with atleaste SSE/SSE2?
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No - most Linux distributions have very minimal hardware requirements. See here - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/releas...e_Requirements - Fedora 12 has a 200Mhz Pentium Pro given as minimal requirement - but I would not wonder if the Kernel would even work on any at least i386 based CPU. 
I personally cannot realy understand the philosophie behind this (I mean who's stuck using such hardware?!) and would prefer to use i686 optimized Linux system like Arch or Crux...
AMD Phenom II X4 955 - ASRock AM3A770DE - 8GB DDR3-1333 - Radeon HD 5570 1GB passiv - BCM4318 802.11b/g - Snow Leopard Retail
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AMD Phenom X3 8450 - ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA (BIOS L2.39) - 4GB DDR2-800 - Radeon HD 4650 512MB - Snow Leopard Retail (retired) / OpenBSD
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