On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 16:07, Jay Barrett wrote: > > ... considering AMD's > Opteron processors and was curious if anybody else > has tried the Opterons?
Hi Jay,
I'm installing RHEL AS v3 for AMD64 tomorrow on a dual Opteron system.
We've had SuSE 9.0 (x86-64) running on it and only had a few relatively
minor problems. Some programs aren't "64bit clean" (they make faulty
assumptions about the sizes of pointers, etc.) and have problems when
compiled for the AMD64 architecture. I bet these things will get sorted
out relatively quickly since the Opterons and Athlon64s are sure to
become popular items...
I'll try to put together a brief review later this week.
Ed
ps - And a huge "Bravo!" to Red Hat for the new and very reasonable
academic pricing.
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