[NTLUG:Discuss] CPU History

[Chris Cox]

Kyle Davenport wrote:
> From: Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org>
> 
>>You were wise to get the K7XPro.  The K7X uses 3com onboard
>>ethernet (the WORST ENEMY OF LINUX!).
> 
> 
> The Tyan Thunder K7X-Pro (S2469UNG ) uses Intel's EtherPro and E1000 Pro.
> It's like getting Gigabit ethernet for free!   I see a beowolf cluster in
> my future!   Dual U/320 and Rage XL onboard too.   I was aiming for stable,
> so the no overclocking option is ok.    I'm a little surprised tho' still
> no USB2.0.
> 
> I've never had a problem with the couple of 3Com's I've used.   I have to
> say I never expect any official company support for anything.  It's like an
> extra present that we can get drivers from Nvidia, for instance.   When
> attempting bleeding edge stuff,  I scan the web to see what kind of active
> community development there is.    Just a couple days ago, eg, linux
> developers announced they would be able to support the "Audigy 2".

Turns out the Tyan board's BIOS was to blame.  Patching to the latest
rev level fixed the ethernet problem.  Tyan... who seems interested
in helping me all of the sudden... well... I told them that they should
have something in their support sight about that.  My guess is that
the ethernet didn't work no matter what OS you used without a BIOS
update.

I'm happy now (and maybe Tyan will start supporting Linux in the
future because of all of this).

I would say that more than 50% of the Fortune 100 have Linux in house
performing a business related task.  I think we'll see more vendors
supporting Linux over the next year.


Regards,
Chris