Re: Linux vendors to standardise on one distribution

2002-05-29 Thread Adrian Stacey
Philip Charles wrote: > > SuSE has a dominant position in Germany, so imho has the best chance. Germany were most dominant in OS/2 at one time, unfortunately it didn't help :( Adrian

Re: Xeons

2002-05-29 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
As far as finding a motherboard goes, talk to Insite, they sell Intel server boards among other things which you should be able to get a dual xeon board, they'll use a standard PSU, but will have special regulators most likely on the board or as a module for the chips. jeremyb. > From: C Falcon

Re: Xeons

2002-05-29 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Mmmm, Xeons are cool, we have a couple of 4way compaq proliants with PIII550 Xeons in them, not too shabby in the performance stakes ;-). jeremyb. > From: C Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/05/30 Thu PM 12:10:59 GMT+12:00 > CC: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Xeons >

Re: Xeons

2002-05-29 Thread Carl Klitscher
IBM does a twin Xeon box (Intellistation M Pro w/2 Prestonia at 2.2Ghz for example) and I can personally confirm that RedHat 7.2 and SuSE 7.3 go like a rocket on it! Didn't get a chance to turn on the HyperThreading support to see what would happen but that's life. It's a complete package system

Xeons

2002-05-29 Thread C Falconer
I'm drooling at the mental picture of a multi-cpu xeon-based machine I have a source for some xeon CPUs at about 600 MHz Where can I find a system board to suit several of these? Do they need special PSUs? (probably depends on the board and the number of CPUs) What is SWTX as a board form

Re: Linux vendors to standardise on one distribution

2002-05-29 Thread Nick Rout
> SuSE has a dominant position in Germany, so imho has the best chance. > > Phil. > I guess they are all fairly dominant in particular areas: caldera is quite popular among corporate users. connectiva in south america/latin countries turbolinux: asia (Its a good little distro actually) --

Re: Linux vendors to standardise on one distribution

2002-05-29 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: > http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701&a=27405,00.asp > > SuSe, Caldera, Conectiva, and Turbolinux are going to > try and take on RedHat's dominance, can't see it happen > myself with the amount of hardware vendors who have ties > with RedHat alr

Linux vendors to standardise on one distribution

2002-05-29 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701&a=27405,00.asp SuSe, Caldera, Conectiva, and Turbolinux are going to try and take on RedHat's dominance, can't see it happen myself with the amount of hardware vendors who have ties with RedHat already. jeremyb.

Re: Copy of SuSE 7.2 Professional (i386) wanted

2002-05-29 Thread C Falconer
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 08:07, V K wrote: > (Sorry for the late reply, haven't read list emails fpr 10 days...) No wonder the list has been kinda quiet!

Re: cdrecord issues with > 700 MB burns

2002-05-29 Thread V K
> AFAIK cdrecord 1.10 is the latest stable release > cdrtools 1.11 is still beta. > > In what sense is stone-age ? Anything with a 2-digit age in months? ;) The cdrecord and mkisofs versioning scheme is seriously mentally deficient!! > * is the 2nd track the one cd drives boot from? IFAIK the

Re: Copy of SuSE 7.2 Professional (i386) wanted

2002-05-29 Thread V K
On Thu 23 May 2002 13:54:09 NZST +1200, David Watson wrote: > Jade Software Corporation is involved in a porting project and I am looking > for a copy of SuSE 7.2 Professional for i386 to use for comparison. > > Has anybody a copy I can copy / buy ? I have versions 6.2, 6.3, 7.0, 7.2, 7.3 (miss