[oclug] Linux on Opteron?

[Olaf Baumann]

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 04:45, Hugh Campbell wrote:
> I am not aware of any 'normal' distribution available for the AMD
> Opteron (ie freely downloadable, etc).
> 
> The M/Boards and CPU's are really not that expensive anymore
> (relatively speaking) and they apparently do give a significant boost,
> even if you are not trying to manipulate gigabyte size databases.  
> 
> However, the only distributions that I can find cost a whopping $1500
> US!!! (Mandrake and Suse). It would be great fun to experiment, but for
> that price, I will give it a miss.
According to this article [http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4618]
posted on 2003-09-22,  "Suse, Mandrake, Redhat (beta), and Gentoo" all
have support for this platform.  It seems to be trade-off between cost
and headache at the time the article was written.  No mention of debian
in the article--odd, considering that there has been traffic on the
debian mailing lists since (at least) April 2003.

--
Olaf