[wplug] AMD Opteron support

[Vanco, Don]

Forgot to mention - Fedora currently has the first test release of it's
AMD64 build out there as well.  Initial functionality seems a bit iffy....

Don


Vanco, Don wrote:
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>> We are looking at getting new server and one of the ones that we are
>> looking at uses the AMD Opteron 240 (IBM eServer).  What distro's
>> support this CPU?  I think that SuSE and Red Hat have verisons that
>> support this.  Are there any more out there?
> 	As far as supported operating system (from an IBM
> perspective and an Enterprise application perspective) you've
> named about the only 2 worth consideration.  See
> http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/compat/nos/matrix.shtml for details
> - although this does not specifically list the e325 (because
> Intel wants it that way) - it's at
> http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/eserver/opteron/.  You have to
> download the specific model PDF to find a definitive OS
> support statement - and the ones I have only show SuSE as
> supported (but I know that RHEL is in testing).
> 
> 	We have a customer that has had these units in eval for
> some time (starting with the 2nd RHEL 3 beta, now on the
> released OS) and they have been quite pleased with the
> performance (to the point they will possibly be buying 300
> more next spring).  Wish I had one to play with.  Past
> experience with AMD -vs- Intel has proven pretty much "1/2
> the price for 2/3 of the performance".
> 
> 	There are undoubtedly other distros that will work
> (like Debian) but I am kinda guessing that you're not going
> to buy this server and then void your IBM warranty by running an
> unsupported OS..... 
> 
> Don