i386 & i586

[Ken]

Thanks Reinhold.

I found the info I required on the 386 & 586 story.
I am using P4 & dual core CPU's & most of my machines have 2Gig RAM.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhold Rumberger" <rrumberger at web.de>
To: "Kubuntu user technical support" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: i386 & i586


> Am Montag 30 November 2009 schrieb Ken:
>> I am absolutely new to Linux & have just received my 4 DVD's
>>  (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mandriva & OpenSuse)
>
> That's something you'll have to find out for yourself. If you have
> the necessary free space, you can install all of them in parallel
> (actually, for Ubuntu vs. Kubuntu, you can just install either and
> make sure that you install both the ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-
> desktop packages).
> If your DVDs contain a live system (the Ubuntu and Kubuntu ones
> probably do), you can just try them out to see which one you're more
> comfortable with.
>
>> As a newbee which one should I start with and what is the diff
>>  between i386 & i586??
>
> See Wikipedia.
> Modern x86 CPUs have a larger instruction set than the original 386.
> Therefore applications & libraries that use these new instructions
> may experience a boost in speed.
> In other words, a Linux distribution for i586 may seem a little
> snappier that one for i386, given the same hard- and software.
>
> On modern systems (64 bit and lots of RAM), I don't think this will
> make much of a difference.
>
>  --Reinhold
>
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