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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. (P) 781-839-2828 mshields at namemedia.com http://www.namemedia.com -----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). -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss at blu.org http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss at blu.org http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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