I've recently installed SL 5.0 on my machine, for which the
cpu is
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
and it all works like a charm.  Well I did spend a little time
zeroing in on an appropriate nvidia graphics driver for the
kernel, but eventually found that
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9742-pkg2.run
which is a somewhat older "beta" driver, works for me.
I switched to the SL after struggling with trying to deal with
Fedora 7 for several weeks (eventually my machine would not
even boot with this OS, but it could have been due to a virus
infection---I have no idea).

So far, SL has given no trouble at all, even with SELinux in
the "enforcing" mode.

Good luck, and post a note if you run into any glitches.

    -- Peter

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On Aug 17, 2007 at 11:50 am, Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou wrote:
| Hi everybody.
| 
| I'm currently working on porting a software to 64bit machines using 
| Linux, so I'm planning to install Scientific Linux 5 on a new machine 
| for that, but before I purchase this new machine, I want to be sure I 
| can install SL5 successfully on it, and I'm not sure which 64-bit AMD 
| CPU are correctly handled by the x86_64 version of SL.
| 
| Dell proposes these CPU:
| for desktops: AMD Athlon? 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+ and faster
| and for laptops: AMD Turion^TM 64x2 Dual-Core Mobile technology TL-50 
| and bigger
| or AMD Turion^TM 64 Mobile technology MK-36 Processor
| 
| Did any of you successfully install SL on any of those processors? 
| Otherwise would you know any detail which would comfort me in choosing 
| one of these?
| 
| Thank you very much in advance.
| 
| Benjamin Ooghe
| Department of Physics & Astronomy
| The Johns Hopkins University
| 3400 North Charles Street
| Baltimore, MD 21218-2686 USA
|