[wplug] AMD Opteron support

[Chris]

wplug-admin at wplug.org 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 versions 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.sht> ml 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).
> 

Thanks everyone, but I am afraid that it doesn't matter anymore.  This
server is going to be a web/database server for us.  The problem is that one
of our Web Design guys codes in ASP and doesn't want to learn PHP.  We are
probably going to use Sun's ASP server so we can run PHP and ASP on this
box.  I talked to Sun and their ASP server needs GLIBC 2.2.5.  I believe
that RHEL AS 3 uses a newer version.  SuSE Linux 8 has this version so that
might be our only option if the Enterprise Edition uses it also.  I am
trying to find out on their site now.  If not, I guess we will have to go
the way of the Xeon.

Thanks

Chris Romano