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From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Dual Opteron -- experiences?
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, sp0ng3b0b wrote:

> I am getting a quote for a new server.
>
> I would like to get a box with 2x AMD Opterons and an Intel MF 1000 
> fiber gigabit card.
>
> Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with Opterons and FreeBSD 
> 5.3?

FreeBSD 5.3/i386 and 5.3/amd64 both work just fine on my Tyan S2885 
(Thunder K8W) with dual Opteron 244's and 2GB RAM.

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