On 9/13/07, centos at 911networks.com <centos at 911networks.com> wrote:
> I was wondering, rhel5/centos5 is 686, but when I went to
> http://dag.wieers.com , the packages for rhel5 are either 386 or
> x86_64. Why?
>
> Should I recompile them for 686 or is it a waste of time or it makes no
> difference or...
i386 is nomenclature carried over for legacy reasons, and is in
reality i686 code.
The i386 packages will work just fine on rhel5/centos5.
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