[wplug] AMD Opteron support
Vanco, Don
don.vanco at agilysys.com
Thu Dec 4 13:52:36 EST 2003
Chris Romano wrote:
> wplug-admin at wplug.org wrote:
>> 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.
>
You can get a Linux distro to support any GLIBC you want to - I
believe it's as simple as passing a variable like "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19
(or 2.2.5)" or something like that (and having the libraries installed, of
course). Have used this on RH distros to fix quite a few broken apps (even
RPM at one point). You _can_ do this with Linux on Opteron. I had no idea
that ASP was supported by Sun. Not learn PHP? Yeah - who wants to know how
to code with cross-platform language?!
Don
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