I'm not sure if the Intel Extreme is even for sale yet and in case you haven't heard about it here is the skinny: it is a dual core hyperthreading processor. A regular hyperthread processor will be "seen" by the OS as a dual processor (this based on my scientific study of how many penguins showed up on the screen at Knoppix boot) so it would seem logical that this chip would appear as a quad processing machine to the OS.
So my question is will Linux behave with this processor in place? Will it see and use all "four" processors? I think it's time forklift upgrade my P-II home server. LInks: The Pentium Extreme http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentiumXE/index.htm The motherboard for the Extreme chip http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bk/index.htm Cool stuff (no oxymoron pun intended) Greg -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
