I have a machine with windows 2003.

the machine is a Quad Core

I want it with Linux Ubuntu Desktop 9.04 ..... does it support quad core ????? how can I know ???? before install it

Yes. if you get an SMP kernel, it supports symmetric multi-processing. All kernels from kernel.org for the past several years have been smp-capable (a distro could recompile a kernel not to be smp-capable, but why would they?).

So, the only way you are likely to get a non-smp kernel in a recent release is by going over to the 'designed-for-low-resource-machine' distros.

I remember 6.06LTS being non-smp by default, but even then, you could just use synaptic to get an smp kernel (even though that sounded ridiculous at the time...why wasn't it smp by default in 06???).

ok, but , does the version 9.04 of Ubuntu already has SMP support ?????

do you know that by any chance ???

Yes, I am running Ubuntu 9.04 default install on a dual core machine and it is using an SMP kernel.

The standard Ubuntu CD is a liveCD - try it and see. But yes, Ubuntu is SMP enabled by default these days.

people, IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just install ubuntu 9.04 (original, no new kernel, just as it cames from AFRICA), on a Intel Core i7 .... 2 quad cores .... 8 processors .... works perfectly. excellent distro.

thanks a lot people

That's probably a single quad core - the i7 is hiperthreaded.
If you really do have two quads, you should see 16 I'd reckon.

you wanna try a hyped up pimped out 9.04
try Phalanx-9.04
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...wnload-767766/