![]() ![]() That compilation of 32bit applications failed. Note that in all of the above setups with the exception of Mandrake Red Hat 9.0 for i386 worked fully, but X acceleration was not supported. SuSe 8.2 for AMD64 worked, but again sluggish IDE performance and compilation of 32bit software would fail badly. (you could run X in twm mode but no other window managers) Gentoo for AMD64 worked great and fast, but no X windows. Red Hat Taroon beta for AMD64 worked also, X worked slowly and again, had intermittent lockups similar to the Mandrake install. Mandrake Beta2 for AMD64 worked, sluggish drive performance, KDE worked like a charm, intermittent lockups, but mostly only when writing large files to the drive (e.g. So, first, a super quick rundown of my previous experience with this setup (mostly from the first article, and more observations from time spent with the machine about a week after the article came out): Recall from the previous article, that this is the same setup with a new case, new ram, bigger drive, different video and bios update.Īlso the 3COM NIC is now in another machine. Power Supply: Enermax 460Watt, fan monitor controlled. RAM: two 512MB sticks of Kingston (ASUS recommended 333MHz dual channel DDR, ECC registered)ĭISKS: One Maxtor 7200rpm 80GB UltraATA drive, One Liteon CDR/RW drive.Ĭase: Lian-Li PC-7, with optional Coolermaster white cold cathode fan in the back (makes it easier to see in the case when working on it) Motherboard: Asus SK8N, BIOS upgraded to 1004 The system now: Basically it is the same as before with some minor changes and a BIOS update: ![]() I will give a brief rundown of the system as it stands now, what I tried to install on it, and what works. Also since that time I have upgraded the RAM and acquired a larger hard disk for the machine. Since that time not too much has happened publicly in regards to the amd64 Linux situation, but a lot of people mailed to tell me that I should have checked out SuSE or the new Mandrake which was “about to be released” at that time. The first article was published on OSNews almost three months ago. Basically, it is a “where are we now?” article, noting that what once did work now does not, and others that did not work now do. This is the second installment of the “ Linux on the Opteron, are we ready?” article. ![]()
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