Re: quad cores?

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Monday 01 October 2007 08:46:39 am Matthew Gillen wrote: 
> Stephen Adler wrote: 
> > Well, with all this VMWaring I've been doing on my desktop, I've come to 
> > realize that my 2.8GHz intel D (i.e. old style dual core) just doesn't 
> > seem to have the punch that my macbook (solid core 2 duo platform) has. 
> > So maybe it's time to upgrade. But as I go out and look around at the 
> > latest CPU's, I see that Intel is out with the core 2 quad! Any comments 
> > on this new processor? Do I have to run fedora core 8 on it or something 
> > like that? 
> 
> You could run Redhat 7.3 SMP on it if you wanted, and it would take 
> advantage of all the processors.  (there might be issues with the 64-bit or 
> ide-chipset support with a kernel from that long ago, but my point is that 
> it's basically using the same SMP basics that linux has supported forever).