Fedora Core 5 freezes on Dell Dimension E510

[mshields at namemedia.com (Matt Shields)]

You're running servers, right?  Not running any desktop applications.  My personal hosted server is a dual core running CentOS 4.3 x86_64 and all the server applications are fine.

My question was more about Desktop Linux and Dual Core and whether it's a waste of money.  For example, even if I get FC5 64bit to install and run X.  There is no Macromedia Flash support for 64bit linux.  And there are a lot of other applications.

Matthew Shields
Sr Systems Administrator
NameMedia, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at blu.org] On Behalf Of Adam Fletcher
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:49 AM
To: discuss at blu.org
Subject: RE: Fedora Core 5 freezes on Dell Dimension E510

Hi Matt,

I run numerous RHEL3 & 4, as well as FC5 machines on x86_64 and they work great, even on dual core. The RHEL are production boxes under heavy load and I have had no issues.


Thanks,

Adam Fletcher
Director, Information Technology
PowerSteering Software, Inc. 

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:06 AM
To: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: Fedora Core 5 freezes on Dell Dimension E510

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 9:41 am, Matt Shields wrote:
> But, my question is what benefit is it buying a new Dual Core desktop if
> I can't run 64 bit OS, and I may not be able to use the smp kernel. ?Did
> I just waste my money?
You should be able to use dual core. 
The Intel chips have dual cores, EM64T, and hyperthreading. You should be 
able to run X86_64 SMP. I don't know about Red Hat, but I run SuSE 10.1 on 
my HP 64-bit laptop, but it is not dual core. 

Also note that we run both SLES 9.0, RHEL 4.0, and Mandrivia on our 64-bit 
servers in the lab, and some have dual core and 64-bits. You can take a 
look at the ones we have publicly available. (http://www.testdrive.hp.com).

(And they don't explode).
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