[geeks] Tru64 licensing/availability...

[Jochen Kunz]

On 2002.07.03 01:01 Will Mc Donald wrote:

> Disk - 2.1 GB 7200 rpm Ultra Wide SCSI HDD
Enough for Tru64, but not for /home...

> Graphics - Matrox Millenium
AFAIK this needs to be replaced as it is not supported by Tru64. Try to
get a TGA2 (PowerStorm 4D20) for good 2D performance, or if you can get
it a 4d[456]0t for 3D work. Some ATI MACH 64 cards are also supported.
If you need I can dig up the MACH 64 PCI IDs for the cards that the
Tru64 kernel knows about...

> I "Just Like" the way commercial variants fit
> together. And yeah, they do require a touch of GNUification. :)
You will be surprised how much free ware / open source stuff is already
in the system. The installer is written in TCL/TK. perl, cyrus-imapd,
mtools, ... The kernel is MACH with BSD on top. If you are familar with
the BSD kernel config files, you will feel "at home" when you see a
Tru64 kernel config file.

> Obviously I'll have to cram it chock full of RAM and some bigger
> disks. 
I have 640MB RAM and this is really "sufficient". The two 2 GB disks are
a bit tight. Note that you need two DIMMs at a time (three banks), the
DIMMS must be PC100 or faster, 3.3 V, ECC, unregistered, max. 256 MB
each. 

> Then maybe dual boot between whatever takes my fancy.
Dual boot is the uptime fetishists enemy. ;-)
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tsch,
         Jochen

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