[Mailinglist] HELP ME. LINUX with DUAL CORE SUPPORT

[Mahesh Aravind]

Sudhir,

I'm sorry I didn't see the begining thread.

--- Sudhir Gandotra <sudhir at openlx.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 23:11 +0530, ASHOK VS wrote:
> 
> > I think ubuntu it has also 64 bit support
> > 
So does Debian Etch, openSUSE and Fedora...

But as you said, Ubuntu is *easily* accessilble to us Indian's (most of whom
are not ready to go out and fetch (read: download and burn) a CD themselves).


> 
> 
> > On 2/15/07, Praveen k.p. <praveenkp at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> >         Dear All,
> >         
> >         which is the best LINUX distro for DUAL CORE machine. where
> >         can i get it.
> >         

Praveen,

*ALL* Linux distros are good for dual core machines.  Experiment with Knoppix
before you buy a machine.  If you've FB enabled, you could see 2 penguins,
which means that 2 CPUs were detected (at least Linux sees 2 cpus).

If you go for some other distro, be sure to install an SMP kernel.  SMP kernels
make full utilization of both cores (_all_ cores, if there's more -- like intel
quad core).

openSUSE installs smp kernel by default, if there's more than one core for the
processor, it automatically detects one and uses it.

--
Mahesh Aravind


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