[NTLUG:Discuss] New Box

[Jeremy Blosser]

WILLIAM PEARSON [WPEARSON at cyclix.com] wrote:
> I have a question though.  I'm wanting to build her a 1.33 Ghz Athlon
> T-Bird utilizing DDR memory.  Now I don't know if there is any
> compatibility issues with Linux on that. Does anyone have any experience or
> knowledge of problems of Linux on such a platform? Particularly Red Hat
> 7.0.

I recently (several months ago) put together a new system at home that's a
1 G T-Bird.  SDRAM instead of DDR because at that time DDR was too new to
even be able to really find boards for it.  It kicks a... er, I mean, I've
had no problems with it.  Only reboots since I got it have been kernel
upgrades, same as any other system.  Asus A7PRO motherboard.  Distribution
is Mandrake 7.2 with lots of cooker/8.0 stuff; I tweaked and rebuilt every
package it has installed myself, so it's been through the paces as far as
compliation and stuff for all the minor and major components (including
glibc, gcc, X... everything).  The only gotcha there was a bug in gcc
2.95.2 relating to compiling C++ stuff with pentiumpro flags and extreme
optimizations which I was able to find a patch for and I think is fixed in
the latest release, but if you don't recompile and optimize your own stuff
you won't even see it.  It wasn't anything very specific to this hardware,
certainly.

As for the question of "why 1G", it's because my entire life I've had a CPU
that was several generations old, so I figured for once I'd get something
bleeding edge, and 1G seemed like a nice round number to do it with. ;)

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Jeremy Blosser