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[ILUG] AMD64 anyone?

[ILUG] AMD64 anyone?

Glen Gray glen at lincor.com
Wed May 26 17:35:06 IST 2004


On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 17:29, Paul Reilly wrote:
> Has anyone on the list tried out the new socket 754 motherboards with
> AMD-64 chips yet? What have your experiences been like?
> 
I intend on that arch being my next upgrade. But as my friends know
that's just never going to happen as I keep putting off the upgrade :)

> I'm looking for a new motherboard with SATA, dual LAN, but I'm not sure
> whether to stick to an Athlon XP or think about a Athlon 64. Is it too
> early from a Linux POV to go with Athlon 64?
> 

Not sure on the motherboard specifics but AFAIK Fedora Core 2 and SuSe
are available on AMD64 in their latest distros as 64bit Linux OS's. 
-- 
Glen Gray <glen at lincor.com>
Lincor Solutions Ltd.




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