[Mageia-discuss] Laptop or Desktop?

Fri Jun 15 17:32:06 CEST 2012

2012-06-15 17:25, Doug Laidlaw skrev:
+> 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.
+I don't use my battery atm. I want it to live long. ;)
+