What distros are friends with the AMD Duron processor?

[LoRdMaUL]

I just upgraded one of my machines to an AMD Duron 750mhz which is overclocked to 950mhz. I seem to remember reading something about certain distros not being friendly with the AMD processors. Does anyone happen to know which ones are and which ones aren't? Any help would be appreciated.

[WCox]

I'm using a 750 Duron with Slackware and Debian. I have had no problem whatsoever. If my memory serves me right, I believe some Athlons had trouble with some Linux distros. Hope this helps

:cool: Slackware :cool:
:) Debian (pretty neat stuff) :)

[Tyr-7BE]

AFAIK, processors and linux are all dealt with in the kernel. So long as you get a respectful distro, you'll be just fine.

[LoRdMaUL]

If I am reading the "respectful distribution" line correctly...I am guessing you mean anything but Red Hat eh? I just have never had any luck with the other distros except those based on Red Hat...oh well...thanks for the info.

[Tyr-7BE]

No no no...Red Hat is a good way to go...they're a major distribution. I just wouldn't recommend an minor player or a highly specialized distro. Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, Slack, etc....they're all good :)

[tiw]

When will people realize distos dont matter. Its the kernel , the KERNEL that controls your hardware. Tar.gz is the way to go with software, the distro just puts the source in binary format and puts it in a directory

[Tyr-7BE]

People WON'T realize, as there will always be newbies in the field. I was just saying that so he doesn't end up with Corel or something.

[atl2ptown]

I have succesfully installed: Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, and even Corel( a little more trouble than it was worth) while running an athlon cpu. They are all relataivley new distros though. I am pretty new to Linux, but in my experience as long as the kernel is stable, major components like the CPU are not a problem.

[atl2ptown]

I have succesfully installed: Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, and even Corel( a little more trouble than it was worth) while running an athlon cpu. They are all relataivley new distros though. I am pretty new to Linux, but in my experience as long as the kernel is stable, major components like the CPU are not a problem.

[nopun]

Originally posted by tiw:
<STRONG>When will people realize distos dont matter. Its the kernel , the KERNEL that controls your hardware. Tar.gz is the way to go with software, the distro just puts the source in binary format and puts it in a directory</STRONG>

Please don't talk down to us, it is highly possible to compile AMD unfriendly binaries (although I couldn't name a distro that has done such a thing)
I've got a LFS partition which has fully k6 optimised binaries - now, if someone brings out a distro like that, I'll be there ;)
Oh, thanks for the tar.gz tip, that's great.

[*Lo*Tek*]

I got an Athlon 900 at home running Mandrake 7.2... got no problems with it...

[Craig McPherson]

All the AMD processors are completely (in theory) completely Intel compatible, so any piece of software that runs on an Intel chip should run on an AMD chip. If that were not the case, AMD would be a seperate platorm. Any incompatibilities any have arisen have been the result of a combination of flaws in the chips and flaws in the programs, but such things have been rare. That said, once you get your system up, you might want to recompile your kernel with optimization for your particular CPU. It can speed things up by as much as 0.2%.

[bdg1983]

Some distros/kernels have problem with the CPUID. Since I'm planning on building a new AMD based pc soon, I saved this from a recent post.

At boot, it's trying to disable the cruddy P3 CPUID by default (DAMN Intel!), and since my Thunderbird processor doesn't have one, it's crashing. When I installed Redhat, where it asks for extra parameters to pass to the kernel, I just had to add x86_serial_nr=1 and it worked like a charm. If it's already installed, i would have typed linux x86_serial_nr=1 at the boot prompt to fix it.

[fow99]

I am in similiar situation as you. I have a machine based on Duron 600. Redhat 6.2 didn't work for me. I went to Corel and it worked.

[fow99]

I am in similiar situation as you. I have a machine based on Duron 600. Redhat 6.2 didn't work for me. I went to Corel and it worked.

[fow99]

I am in similiar situation as you. I have a machine based on Duron 600. Redhat 6.2 didn't work for me. I went to Corel and it worked.

[mindwarp.out]

Aparently you have more problems then that, we heard you the first time. At any rate, as long as you recompile your kernel, AMD will work great. I have redhat 6.2 on a athlon 650 that works great. Please do not blame processors for your own inability to figure out problems.

[LoRdMaUL]

I guess its the CPUID issue that I remembered reading about...thanks for the headsup guys.