On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:01:14PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Because that's significantly less of our userbase. I'd love to have
> harder numbers, but we're still talking about a set of CPUs that
> (outside of corner cases like the Geode and C3) ceased production
> anywhere from 4 (Athlon) to 6 (P3) to 10 (P2) years ago.
production, but not support. People buying these did expect software
to exist and run on them for more than 4+ years.
My little old Latitude C400 works great as a relatively low power
firewall/router/printserver/torrent seed/bastion host.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 11
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1200MHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 798.000
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse up
bogomips : 1594.67
clflush size : 32
power management:
BIOS Information
Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
Release Date: 03/01/2004
with a BIOS a little over 5 years old. Is it long in the tooth? sure. Is it still very functional? you bet.
I wouldn't go so far as to require sse2 in such a move.
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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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