On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 19:35, James Ralston wrote:
On 2003-07-21 at 15:19:31-0700 Jesse Keating hosting@j2solutions.net wrote:
On Monday 21 July 2003 15:28, James Ralston wrote:
The Opteron is AMD's server chip, and is thus best paired with RHEL.
Ugh.. sounds like a marketing call on that one. Guess we should strip all the server stuff out of RHLP since it's all better suited for RHEL anyway...
IMHO...
It makes sense for Red Hat to put Opteron support into RHEL, as both the Opteron and RHEL are specifically targeted to servers, and the Opteron is available (more or less) *now*. Do you honestly expect Red Hat to spend development effort making Cambridge support a processor that hasn't been released yet, when the only "benefit" would be to undercut RHEL sales?
In academia opterons are being looked at for computational systems NOT servers.
I think there is a lot of good reason for RHLP to support opteron archs if someone is willing to work on it.
at the very least I'd hope red hat linux project 'directors' or what not wouldn't undermine or oppose such efforts.
-sv