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]> _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug
