"David Gernez" <dgernez@magelec.com> wrote in message news:<41ac5d49$0$20559$626a14ce@news.free.fr>...
> > But why are you surprised?
>
> Because there were a lot of post saying it wasn't working and that you could
> only run it on PIII max.
> Even sco said so (take a look here http://tinyurl.com/67daz).
>
> Thanks for the updates suggestion.
>
> David

I don't see where that says anything that implies 5.0.5 is not
recommended on a Duron, unless Durons use "the same netburst
architecture as P4".

I would be wary, but I haven't seen anything definitive one way or the
other, so if I had to stick to 5.0.5, and dual P3 or dual P3-xeon
wasn't good enough, (or I couldn't get smp for whatever reason), then
I'd try a current AMD. As it happens, in that event I wouldn't use a
Duron, but only for the same reasons I wouldn't use a Celeron, I would
use whatever was the best 32bit AMD at the time.