[ale] Mobo suggestions

[Dow Hurst]

Thanks for the post!  Nice price!  Sorry about the lack of apps.  You are definitely in new territory for the next few months as developers catch up to the 64bit environment.  Does VMware offer a route to run a 32bit virtual machine in a 64bit environment?  You could run a virtual Linux with Openoffice if that was available.  
Dow


>>> jkinney at localnetsolutions.com 06/27/03 11:37 AM >>>
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 07:56, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Now here is the question:  Are you willing to state publicly what it cost?;-)
> Dow
> 
$2000 with the one CPU. The second is an additional $325. The RAM is in
4 512M sticks. They were out of the 1G ECC. That shaved >$150 off the
final.

There are several sticking points with the RH preview release. (I can't
get my hands on either a Mandrake or a SUSE for the x86_64)
1. NO JAVA! (see below)
2. NO OPENOFFICE!

I am looking at the source for OpenOffice now to see if it is compilable
with out the JDK stuff. The ia64 JDK pukes when it sees the glibc. %*^@
closed-source headaches!

The prebuilt kernel is not very memory efficient. I'm looking into that
as well. With a 2G pile of ram, and only 1G used, why is _any_ swap
space being used?

Nautilus is still as slow a molasses in winter (what a piece of crap.
Pretty crap. But s  l  o  w  crap)

Apache hauls ass, though! I have only done some prelim looking at
PostgreSQL as I don't have my full setup on line yet, but it is
noticeably faster.
> 
> >>> jkinney at moat.localnetsolutions.com 06/26/03 23:53 PM >>>

> Well, Monarch got some of my money today. I am now the busy, drooling owner of a dual Opteron 240 system with 2G ram, Adaptec SCSI 160 card, a Western Digital 120G 7200 rpm HD, and a new liteon 54xATAPI CDRW all parked in a black full tower LianLi case.
> 
> OK. So it only has the one Opteron CPU in right now. They ran out. I bought the last one. They are a PIA to install, too. It requires a frame support bracket that is attached to the underside of the motherboard. So I'll be pulling the board out next week to install the other CPU when it comes in.
> 
> I'm running a preview copy of RH 9 for the opteron cpu. No tweaking yet on the kernel. It runs pretty well. No OpenOffice.org in this so I guess I'll be grabbing it tomorrow since I pretty much live in front of it these days.
> 
> Mmmm. 64bit PostgreSQL.
> 

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