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.
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