confusion about architecture type.
 

Hi guys
I havn't touched my linux distro for about 3 months, and I was a newb before. I am trying to download and install wine, which I've done before on my SuSE 9.1 distro. I seem to remember that my architecture is i386 (amd athlon xp). YaST hardware info tells me that same thing. When I try to d'l wine through wineHQ.com, there appears to be only versions for i586. Is it actually important that I stick with an i386 release, or should I d/l anyway?
Sorry for the stupid questions.
travis

i586 should work. when i used suse i was using packages from 386, 486 and 586...i'm not sure what the exact differences are, but i know in slack which i use now, i do the same thing, with no problem.

you just need stuff compiled for your machine or below not above

i386 is from like 1984 or something absurd

the actual compiler flag for your system is
-march=athlon-xp

it's a little tricky having to use intel specs but you have MMX, 3dNOW!, enhanced 3dNOW! and full SSE instruction set so even things compiled for -march=pentium3 should work or anything below

idealy you should be using things compiled for athlon-xp cause no intel chips use 3dNOW

i586 is fine for Athlon XP.Actually anything in between i386 and i686 is fine for it when you install prepackaged software.

i386 is just the lowest common denominator, meaning it will run on anything above a 386.
i585 means it will run on anything 586 (pentium) and above and is compiled using optimisations allowed by that processor. Likewise i686

On the rare occasion I download a package, I get i686 because I have a Duron.

thanks
 

Thanks for all your imput. I'm going to go ahead and d/l the wine package, then, and I'll see if there's any other problems.
Being new to linux and the forums, I'm surprised at how helpful people are!