P III 500 o Celeron 900???

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Si va ha funcionar con LINUX, talves debas tomar en cuenta no solo el microprocesador, sino la placa y demas componentes. Tomé un parrafo de las notas de RedHat, para que saquen sus propias conclusiones. No esta traducido para no cambiar el sentido de las notas:

" Red Hat Linux will install a kernel optimized for Athlon processors on systems
with an Athlon-class CPU. Due to the optimization, this will put a greater load
on the system components. Therefore, a very small number of machines may
fail to boot as a result of the hardware not strictly conforming with AMDs
specifications and thus being unable to cope with the load. On such systems,
you can either upgrade the hardware (under-powered power supply units can
cause this) or use the rescue capability of the installer to install an i686 kernel.

" Some Athlon-class machines are out-of-spec or have overly aggressive
chipset configurations set by their BIOS. On these systems, you may see
random "Oops" messages at boot time (after successfully completing the
install process) and will be unable to boot successfully. On these systems, boot
with the noathlon option to turn off the athlon optimizations; install the 686
kernel instead of the athlon kernel to avoid this for the future.