[gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo

[gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo

[Michael Madden]

Could someone recommend an amd64 box to use with Gentoo 2006.0?
I had considered one of the following workstations;  has anyone had
good or bad experience with these workstations and Gentoo for amd64?

HP xw9300
Sun Ultra 40
IBM IntelliStation A Pro
Alienware MJ-12 7550a

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Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo

[Bob Sanders]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:04:58 -0600
"Michael Madden" <darkspleen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Could someone recommend an amd64 box to use with Gentoo 2006.0?
> I had considered one of the following workstations;  has anyone had
> good or bad experience with these workstations and Gentoo for amd64?
> 
> HP xw9300
> Sun Ultra 40
> IBM IntelliStation A Pro
> Alienware MJ-12 7550a
> 

No.

Shuttle XPC SN95G5 V3 - typing this email now
	Nvidia 6600GT Gfx card, though it's seen several others.  This
	system was built early 2005. 

Penguin Computing 1U server - been running since 2004, 2P Opteron

Self-built 2P Opteron Tyan K8W S2885 motherboard, running since 2004.
	Nvidia 6600GT gfx card.  Started out with an Nvidia 5900XT.  It
	lost one cpu - memory controller went bad last year.  Upgraded both
	cpus and now have powernowd running doing dynamic frequency control.

Self-built 2P Opteron MSI motherboard, built 2004, motherboard lost memory
	traces in 2005.  Now dead.

All have run Gentoo, though the Penguin Computing server started out with SLES 8,
that basically sucked.  SLES 9 and SLES 10 are better, but it's a critical lab server and
I won't run software we test on something critical like that.

Bob
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Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo

[Bob Sanders]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:07:46 -0800
Bob Sanders <rmsand@concentric.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:04:58 -0600
> "Michael Madden" <darkspleen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Could someone recommend an amd64 box to use with Gentoo 2006.0?
> > I had considered one of the following workstations;  has anyone had
> > good or bad experience with these workstations and Gentoo for amd64?
> > 
> > HP xw9300
> > Sun Ultra 40
> > IBM IntelliStation A Pro
> > Alienware MJ-12 7550a
> > 

Thinking about it my reply should have been - Gentoo will run fine
on any box the vendor sells with a Linux as an option to on it.

Bob
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Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo

[Walter Dnes]

  What remaining software issues are there with 32-bit stuff on a 64-bit
machine?  Last time I was thinking about going 64-bit on my machine, I
was scared off by the docs on the Gentoo website.  I now understand that
they were out-of-date about some problems that have now been solved.
BTW, I have schlockwave-trash turned off 99.9% of the time and I do not
soil my machine with Sun's bloated OpenOffice.  Between OpenOffice and
all its dependacies (including tons of Java garbage), I figure that
trashing OO has saved me at least a gig of disk space.

  My main worries would be proprietary stuff like RealPlayer and the
win32codecs portion of mplayer.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended amd64 box for Gentoo

[Bob Sanders]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 03:06:42 -0500
"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:

>   My main worries would be proprietary stuff like RealPlayer and the
> win32codecs portion of mplayer.
>

Both work for me within reason.  The win32codecs I use with
mplayer-bin.  And Realplayer works.

But if you are one that wants seamless integration with a browser or gui,
then you'll be disappointed and unhappy.

I've not had any issue with streaming audio.  Some issues with streaming
video - video.google.com doesn't work.  But for anything that's downloadable,
mostly no problems playing.  Some problems with video from those using
very new versions of Micrsoft's video formats.

fwiw - I use both Firefox and  Opera, but not firefox-bin.

Bob
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