The SUSE packages are built for i586, so they use processor features and optimizations not available on i386 machines. SUSE has chosen to compile most packages as i586 or higher, which gives you more speed if you have fast hardware, but means you can't run it on older hardware. Fedora has chosen to compile most packages as i386, and provide i586/i686 versions of some key packages where the speed difference will be noticable (like glibc), this way it can still run on older hardware.

We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!

In reply to Re: DBI/DB2 slow on Fedora, fast on SUSE by jasonk
in thread DBI/DB2 slow on Fedora, fast on SUSE by hrr

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