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author | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2006-12-31 22:10:55 +0000 |
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committer | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2006-12-31 22:10:55 +0000 |
commit | a20bc5c419af985f6916cea1ab1b519a2691c6fe (patch) | |
tree | 5fe9d18ee0d47aadc1cdbc9ca1a5d569ac6e3049 /en/hardware/supported | |
parent | 6d86159da273e8425690cb1645ce7ca6704f251d (diff) | |
download | installation-guide-a20bc5c419af985f6916cea1ab1b519a2691c6fe.zip |
- Etch ships with X.Org 7.1
- Fix some minor spacing problems
- Delete or update some obsoleted information
- General minor fixes
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-rw-r--r-- | en/hardware/supported/i386.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml b/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml index 1b52da93d..60a2b715f 100644 --- a/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml +++ b/en/hardware/supported/i386.xml @@ -16,13 +16,13 @@ This section merely outlines the basics. Nearly all x86-based (IA-32) processors still in use in personal computers are supported, including all varieties of Intel's "Pentium" series. -This also includes 32-bit AMD and VIA (former Cyrix) processors, and new +This also includes 32-bit AMD and VIA (former Cyrix) processors, and processors like the Athlon XP and Intel P4 Xeon. </para> <note><para> -If your system has a 64-bit AMD64, Intel EM64T or Intel Core 2 Duo processor, +If your system has a 64-bit processor from the AMD64 or Intel EM64T families, you will probably want to use the installer for the amd64 architecture instead of the installer for the (32-bit) i386 architecture. @@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ of the installer for the (32-bit) i386 architecture. <para> However, Debian GNU/Linux &releasename; will <emphasis>not</emphasis> run -on 386 or earlier processors. Despite the architecture name "i386", Debian -Sarge has <emphasis>dropped support</emphasis> for actual 80386 processors -(and their clones), which were supported by earlier releases<footnote> +on 386 or earlier processors. Despite the architecture name "i386", support +for actual 80386 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the Sarge +(r3.1) release of Debian<footnote> <para> We have long tried to avoid this, but in the end it was necessary due a |