[tlug] Re: Opterons have arrived

[Stephen Lee <sl@example.com>]

patrick.niessen@example.com wrote:
> 
> Well, they have finally made it to the shelves in Akihabara.  Saw three
> different speed types on wednesday priced between 40k and 100k.  Also
> available was theRioworks dual opteron motherboard for around 70k.

They made it there some weeks ago.  What is interesting is that nForce3
boards are coming out soon that will cost around 30k, but those are
single-CPU boards.

It'd be great to have a dual opteron board, but 70k for just the board,
not to the price of 2 CPUs, is a bit steep for me...

> Any news about any Distros besides Suse Enterprise server available now
> 64Bit?  I am eagerly waiting for Gentoo Opteron being ready ...  I suppose
> until then you could still run a 32Bit Os on them as they are supposed to be
> faster than Xeons even in the inferior 32Bit mode.

User's side is demoing it with 64-bit Linux -- I don't know which distro.

Are AMD64 linux able to run 32 bit apps?  You can at least recompile the
kernel then...

Stephen