Re: I Need Tips for Building Dual Opteron System

2004-12-04 Thread Robert Storey
Dear John, I don't have any experience personally, but a close friend just bought an AMD64 box. He says that at the moment, biggest problem is that most binaries are compiled for i386, though 64-bit stuff is slowly coming. Debian's work-around is to install these applications into a chrooted envir

I Need Tips for Building Dual Opteron System

2004-12-04 Thread John Foster
I am currently doing research for building a new Dual Opteron system. Anyone on the list with positive/negative experience in using Linux (esp. Debian based) on this type of machine please reply. I am concerned about matching up hardware that all works. I plan to use this as a server/workstation