(This post goes into some details about Arch Linux, but the general principles apply the same to other Linux distributions, too.) My old workhorse server that I've used for various tasks over the years is slowly starting to become a bit of a bottleneck. I bought it just after I left high school, so I had no money, and it really shows: % grep-m2-e'model name'-e'bugs' /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2800 @ 1.86GHz bugs : You can't have any fancy CPU bugs if you didn't have any...
