[NTLUG:Discuss] CPU History

[Greg Edwards]

Fred James wrote:
> Questions:
> (1) Is there any significant difference, from either a user's, or an 
> administrator's, perspective in Linux on AMD chips compared to Intel chips?
> (2) I usually run RH - any comments on this for AMD?
> (3) Any one distribution that stands out on AMD?
> Thanks in advance.
> 

All my machines are AMD.  I use to run a couple Cyrix 6x86 boxes but 
when my FIC PA2007 MBs toasted I switched them to AMD K6/2.  My fastest 
box at the moment is an Athlon 650 on an ASUS K7V.  I'm about to upgrade 
one of my 650s to an Athlon 2100+ XP Thoroughbred on an ASUS A7N8X MB 
for a workstation.  The 650 and MB are going into another case to be 
converted to an application server.  I've been a fan of the VIA Chipset 
for quite awhile but as I've heard it the nForce2 is the current killer 
for the AMD CPUs.

I run Mandrake since it's compiled for Pentium class out of the box 
while RH (and most other distributions) are compiled for 386 class machines.

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Greg Edwards