[geeks] IBM rant

Bryan Fullerton fehwalker at gmail.com
Thu Nov 30 15:50:21 CST 2006


On 11/30/06, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
> Go for it!  I have had no problems with IBM x325 (dual Opteron) and
> even an old monstrous 4-CPU Netfinity 6000R (with 4x 700Mhz Xeons and
> 6GB RAM).  Solaris runs better (given enough RAM) than Linux does IMHO.

I'm more optimistic about Solaris working on the Opteron IBM boxes,
but it just won't go on a x306m (locks when configuring devices).
We're talking low, low end servers.

Bryan



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