[ale] dual core

[Brian Pitts]

Terry Bailey wrote:
> 
> At 03:17 PM 8/27/2007, you wrote:
>> A little of both. A well written, and designed, threaded application
>> can make use of the multiple cores/cpus more effectively than a
>> non-threaded application. But, the OS kernel can split up the load
>> between its cores/cpus. That is, the OS can run XMMS on one core an
>> Quake on another.
> 
> 
> Is the kernel in Fedora Core 5 capable of doing this?
> 


I think for FC5 you need to install their SMP kernel package. A better 
idea would be to move to a later release, since security updates for FC5 
stopped in June. For Fedora 6 or 7 I don't believe you need a special 
SMP kernel.

-Brian