Re: amd64 recommendation?

On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 10:05 -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote:
> >On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 09:27:23 -0700 Rodney Mishima wrote:
> >
> >| Lug members,
> >|
> >| I am in the process of upgrading my x86 stuff and soon will have a
> >| amd64 system.
> >|
> >| I already downloaded Sun's Open Solaris 10 for x86
> >|
> >| but I want to try some Linux distro as well. I wonder what
> >| experiences other Lug folks have had with amd64.
> >
> >My dual Opteron machine runs very nicely.
> >I first installed SUSE 9.1 (iirc), which worked fine.
> >Then I installed Mandrake 10.1, which also works well.
> >
> >I switched only because I didn't have SUSE CDs/DVD and
> >I do have Mandrake CDs.  I.e., I did a network install
> >of SUSE, which was fairly slow, but after the install
> >was complete, it was good.
> 
> Randy,
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.
> 
> I don't have the budget to go Opteron class. I think mine is Athlon 
> 64, not really familiar with AMD's product differentiation.
> 
> Sun is partnering w. AMD and uses Opteron in their boxes. Don't know 
> how well Solaris 10 will work, but I already have it downloaded and 
> burned to DVD.
> 
> I also have a SUSE eval dvd of 9.2. Sounds like that one is worth a 
> closer look.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Rodney

Have one Athalon 64 running Mandrake 10.0 and one on 10.1 - no
complaints at all.

Let us know how the Eval DVD goes please. I have the eval DVD I got at
Brainshare and every install so far has failed the SAX2 package. It's
not too horrible though as long as your prepared to manually tweak
XF86Config. 9.2 is a decent distro, I have to admit that I was a little
apprehensive about the whole Novell/SuSE thing but I like what I see out
of Novell so far.

-- 
Steve <[email protected]>

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