[CentOS] CentOS and Dell Support

Sun Dec 4 23:58:10 UTC 2005
Bryan J. Smith <thebs413 at earthlink.net>

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 15:55 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> Dell is going to warranty the hardware - it doesn't have anything to do
> with which OS you are using.

But they can make it hell trying to get support.  ;->

> BTW - most of the PowerEdge stuff now can run the 86-64 as well as the
> i386

<strong opinion=ON>
It still isn't AMD, so it still ain't x86-64.  Intel calls it IA-64 aka
EM64T for a reason, it's not the full x86-64 ISA.  So as far as I'm
concerned, you're really no better off on a server whether you run i386
or x86-64 on EM64T -- especially for anything I/O intensive.
</strong opinion>



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