Re: [ossig] Has anyone tried Linux + opteron locally?

[Vincent Lee <leehongfay@yahoo.com>]

bingo! I just bought the motherboard.. getting the
rest of the server components later.. the next few
days should be fun !! 

--- Imran William Smith <iwsmith@mimos.my> wrote: >
Somebody internal wants to know if anybody local had
> experience
> of Linux on AMD Opteron.
> 
> If so, do tell us, so we can all go green with envy
> :)
> 
> Personally I quite like the look of the first entry
> on
> http://www.tyan.com.tw/products/html/matrix.html ...
> 2xOpteron, 8xDDR slot and 8xAGP, gigabit lan,
> firewire ...
> 
> It seems like the open source-OS  support for AMD64
> is
> flooding out, latest is Mandrake 9.2 betas.  I think
> the
> Windows support got pushed back into H2/2004, right?
> 
> So if that doesn't kill Opteron, it might kill MS in
> the server room.
> 
> Although from the latest netcraft stats, MS has
> definitely lost
> the war of the webserver...
>
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/11/03/november_2003_web_server_survey.html
> I even wonder if Apache is getting to the dangerous
> 'monoculture'
> level where it's better for all of us if people
> start to build alternatives,
> so one big Apache vulnerability can't enable a
> single worm to turn
> off the web.
> 
> 
> Imran
> 
> 
> -- 
> Imran William Smith
> Project Manager, Open Source, MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia
> 
> Asian Open Source Centre : http://www.asiaosc.org
> MIMOS Open Source        :
> http://opensource.mimos.my
> 
> 
> 
> 
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