Everyone's doing it. I think Jason was jealous of the two hits per month that I am getting so now he has created a blog. Who knows what he'll write about it.
We'll be getting some interesting test machines at work. I haven't ever used an AMD Opteron before or any other 64-bit systems, but we're going to be evaluating some of them to compare with our Dells. I hadn't realized that AMD Opterons had been doing so well compared to Intel's Itanium 64 bit machines that Intel finally had to suck it up and release Extended Memory 64 Technology(EM64T), which are a line of Intel chips that are compatible with AMD machines. That must have really hurt the ego of Intel, having been the leader for so long, to admit defeat in their big margin server business and adopt an AMD standard.
We're also testing a couple different OS'es. We've been having some issues with Suse 9.1 crashing on us, so we're having a shootout between a variety of them for our application. So far Win2k and White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 are the winners while Solaris x86 and Suse 9.1 have both crashed. Until recently, I hadn't ever heard of White Box Linux, but Tango and our sysadmin recommended it, and now we're testing it and it looks really good. I feel kind of like a hypocrite because I have a Windows XP desktop, but I am a Linux fanboy. I swear I'll install Linux on my work desktop when I get some time.
We'll be getting some interesting test machines at work. I haven't ever used an AMD Opteron before or any other 64-bit systems, but we're going to be evaluating some of them to compare with our Dells. I hadn't realized that AMD Opterons had been doing so well compared to Intel's Itanium 64 bit machines that Intel finally had to suck it up and release Extended Memory 64 Technology(EM64T), which are a line of Intel chips that are compatible with AMD machines. That must have really hurt the ego of Intel, having been the leader for so long, to admit defeat in their big margin server business and adopt an AMD standard.
We're also testing a couple different OS'es. We've been having some issues with Suse 9.1 crashing on us, so we're having a shootout between a variety of them for our application. So far Win2k and White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 are the winners while Solaris x86 and Suse 9.1 have both crashed. Until recently, I hadn't ever heard of White Box Linux, but Tango and our sysadmin recommended it, and now we're testing it and it looks really good. I feel kind of like a hypocrite because I have a Windows XP desktop, but I am a Linux fanboy. I swear I'll install Linux on my work desktop when I get some time.
posted by Hubert at 10/15/2004 05:48:00 AM
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My co-worker has a dual opteron system running Red Hat Enterprise. It's really fast. Itanium has been a huge fiasco. Lousy design decisions making for mediocre performance given the cost and amount of silicon.
Talking about 64-bit systems, I can run a 64-bit Linux on my G5 Mac as well as a previous of the next Mac OS, which allows 64-bit user processes. They haven't ported all the Mac libraries to 64-bit, but I don't really care about that.
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