[Mageia-discuss] Laptop or Desktop?

Fri Jun 15 17:25:58 CEST 2012

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:04:53 +0200
+Kristoffer Grundström <kristoffer.grundstrom1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
+
+> 2012-06-15 17:01, Doug Laidlaw skrev:
+> > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:47:48 +0200
+> > Sandro CAZZANIGA<cazzaniga.sandro at gmail.com>  wrote:
+> >
+> >> Le 15 juin 2012 16:42, "Kristoffer Grundström"<
+> >> kristoffer.grundstrom1983 at gmail.com>  a écrit :
+> >>> I haven't found any way to start the Mageia-installation to choose
+> >>> which
+> >> kernel to install instead of the standard.
+> >>> There are differences between desktop and netbook-kernels, right?
+> >> Right.
+> >>
+> > A while back, it was announced that there was a Mageia kernel for
+> > ARM. I believe that it was referring to netbooks, which use a
+> > different processor.  You wouldn't want that kernel for a laptop.
+> >
+> > HTH,
+> >
+> > Doug.
+> Shouldn't that kernel be renamed to somthing more detailed so people
+> can tell them apart?
+> 
+> kernel-arm-netbook for instance.
+> 
+I have a desktop, but I am running 32-bit.  In that case, I need the
+server kernel.  The installer knows to do that.  Kira says I
+misunderstood about the ARM kernel.
+
+There is kernel-netbook and kernel-tmb-laptop in the repos.  There is
+also a kernel-tmb-desktop, that they recommend if you prefer
+performance over battery life. I suspect that if you don't need the
+tmb version, you use the ordinary desktop kernel for a laptop, but it
+is outside my experience.
+
+You haven't said which hardware you have, but I am guessing it is a
+netbook.
+
+Doug.
+