386 or 686 does it matter?

medya · 10-25-2005, 04:32 AM

I havent still succeeed in my first installing a program for linux ( GraphCacl Program )

it needs me to install another package and that package needs another package and that package gives me error ... ha ha whatever....

when I spend hours of time to download these packages by my 14.4 KB modem .
I see there are two kind of each package...one is 386 and the other is 686 ...which one should I download ?
my CPU is Celeron 2 GHZ ,.

fouldsy · 10-25-2005, 04:57 AM

The 686 package will be more optimised for your Celeron processor. The 386 packages are more for backwards compatibility I suppose. To be honest, you probably won't notice much of a difference unless the rest of your system is optimised for a particular architecture such as with Gentoo or LFS.