[oclug] Linux and AMD?

G. R. Gaudreau revgr at sympatico.ca
Thu Aug 30 17:37:47 EDT 2001


Patrick Leckey wrote:
> 
> Our primary web server at work is a Duron 750 MHz and it's been great to us.
> Just as stable as any of our Celerons (gateway and MySQL servers are both
> Celeron).  I haven't put Linux on a PIII or PIV yet, but I can't imagine
> that it could get much better in reliability and performance than the AMD.

Hi Sean,
I'm running MDK 8.0 on an AMD K6-2 400Mhz and I haven't had any
processor specific problems that I know of. For the money you'll pay,
AMD gives you more bang for the buck.

To Pat:	 What's the difference between the Duron and Athlon?

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Cheers,
G. R. Gaudreau
http://www3.sympatico.ca/revgr/



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