Text 6156, 70 rader
Skriven 2006-05-29 04:31:24 av Kenneth Parrish (8:8/2)
   Kommentar till text 6153 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
Ärende: Re: am2   was, ttylinux 64-bit  was, Re: sensors, pnpbios
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-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Kenneth Parrish <=-

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 MK> Sounds great.  I think that is a good thing.
a bulletin says we were moving over to verizon's fiber network about a week
back.

 KP> "The only difference between AM2 and Socket 939/940 processors is
 KP> DDR2.."

 MK> We'll soon enough find out.  Also I heard the am2 socket has
 MK> potential future development based around the dual core suckers and
 MK> their 'extreme' version, whatever the heck that really is.
it's news to me. intel did an extreme edition p4 i read a while back

 MK> Too much money from what I see here no matter what amd thinks it's
 MK> usefullness might be.  I am still wondering about the opterons
 MK> and why I might want one of those.  So far I haven't been able to
 MK> answer that question for myself.  I still believe my dual 933 p3
 MK> system can kick serious butt compile-wise. :-)
do you build gcc 3.4 and later with the new profiling option?

[..]
 KP> If you're thinking about investing in this platform (I personally
 KP> wouldn't recommend investing in a chipset architecture at launch, but
 KP> I guess if people have money and time to burn..), just go for it.

 MK> It was cheap.  We'll see.  Good ram though and it should work with
 MK> other boards.  I still am thinking about other things and
ddr2 works with ddr boards just slower?
 MK> have noticed prices coming down very nicely.  In the meantime this
 MK> experiment will keep me distracted until something better presents
 MK> itself.  As far as my main connected system the 800MHz C3 seems to
 MK> be chugging along nicely.  It yawns at the so-called high speed
 MK> internet connection.  I am confident it will handle the ftp issue
 MK> nicely and if not I have a backup system.
ftp-by-mail might please some people

 KP> .. between S939 and AM2 sockets will be negligible. You might find
 KP> some hardware doesn't work at launch, but you can help the list fix
 KP> that up.

 MK> Maybe.  Most of it is totally meaningless to me personally but if I
 MK> find time or become challenged about it I'd be more then happy to
 MK> put in my two cents about any of that stuff.
is the onboard hardware pci-express?

[ winning http ]
 MK> That has already been covered for years now.  The mainpage sucks
 MK> big time but it works to point to the ttylinux stuff.  I am still
 MK> uncertain what should be on the mainpage and I have never been a
 MK> web person so it is truly minimalized (to say the least).  From
 MK> what we've seen ttylinux is the bulk of the traffic (downloads)
 MK> so putting up a pure ftp server to back it up is probably a very
 MK> prudent move at the moment.  I am thinking it should be production
 MK> grade by this Friday (June 2).
will you have an incoming folder?

 MK>  I've been testing stuff for quite some time now so I think it
 MK> is overdue that someone did something about it.
could be fun

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