Re: amd64 recommendation?
Rodney Mishima <[email protected]>
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>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]> Steve, I know what you mean. After Novell took over, it was not obvious to me which web site to use; but somehow I found the downloads for both the eval dvd and a live cd of SUSE 9.2 If anyone wants a copy, let me know. Rodney _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug