386 or 686 does it matter?

medya · 10-25-2005, 04:18 AM

I havent still cceeed 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 ,.

overlord73 · 10-25-2005, 04:25 AM

the number stands for the architecture.
so the conclusion is ...the i686 is optimized for i686-machines (like yours) and the i386 is the standard build.

XavierP · 10-25-2005, 02:15 PM

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