[Mailinglist] HELP ME. LINUX with DUAL CORE SUPPORT

[Sudhir Gandotra]

Mahesh,


On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 02:00 -0800, Mahesh Aravind wrote:
> Sudhir,
> 
> I'm sorry I didn't see the begining thread.

I had only suggested the use of OpenLX for this. That comment is not in
this mail.


> 
> --- 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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