new linux-image: why?

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I don't think so, I think the instruction set in Athlon XP is very
much closer to Athlon K7's than to Pentium Pro's.

K7 - AMD ATHLON Family (not K6, not amd64-k8)
686 - INTEL Pentium Pro and higher (PII, PIII, PIV...)

I guess more than one subscriber to this list has heard of MMX,
MMXExt, 3DNow, 3DNowExt, PowerNOW!, etc... which are features a little
more advanced than Pentium Pro's MMX (it's less than Pentium II)!

-K7 have MMX, MMXExt, 3DNow, 3DNowExt and PowerNOW!
-586 have MMX
-686 have MMX and MMX2

And your Athlon XP has MMX, MMXExt, 3DNow, 3DNowExt and PowerNOW! So I
think the right choice here is K7!

So, I don't know why you all advice that wrong!

Here you have 2 links with a little of info

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-4452.html
[spanish] http://www.ubuntu-es.org/node/4003
[spanish] http://www.mundogeek.net/archivos/2005/02/22/guia-de-configuracion-de-ubuntu/

Please correct me in the case I'm wrong, but I think it's a bad
practise trying to help without knowing the right answer.

I hope this helps. Excuse me for my typos.