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12-22-2001, 01:03 PM

Well. I'm posting this from das tier. Yep. No joke. First, a couple notes:

-Debian did not like SMP. So I switched to Red Hat 7.2 and did a custom install. It's worked out pretty alright, and though I'd very strongly prefer to be running Debian (it's what I run on my other boxes, for God's sake - why not this one?), Red Hat will do quite nicely.

-It is fast. I know you expect that, but seriously. Know how Mozilla usually takes a few seconds to start up? Not here - I click it and it's open. even when it's totally unloaded from RAM and whatnot (i.e., right after I book up and do a startx). Compiles also go way way faster. I use GKrellM to monitor my CPU usage, and it's making good use of both CPUs. Very cool.

-GRUB is nice. It's the default with Red Hat now, and although I've been using LILO for 5+ years, I thought I'd switch it up. Well, I'm glad I did. GRUB is very very cool.

-I'll post more later. Jenni and I are damn hungry.

12-22-2001, 01:03 PM	#30
dave Guest Posts: n/a	It's ALIVE! Well. I'm posting this from das tier. Yep. No joke. First, a couple notes: -Debian did not like SMP. So I switched to Red Hat 7.2 and did a custom install. It's worked out pretty alright, and though I'd very strongly prefer to be running Debian (it's what I run on my other boxes, for God's sake - why not this one?), Red Hat will do quite nicely. -It is fast. I know you expect that, but seriously. Know how Mozilla usually takes a few seconds to start up? Not here - I click it and it's open. even when it's totally unloaded from RAM and whatnot (i.e., right after I book up and do a startx). Compiles also go way way faster. I use GKrellM to monitor my CPU usage, and it's making good use of both CPUs. Very cool. -GRUB is nice. It's the default with Red Hat now, and although I've been using LILO for 5+ years, I thought I'd switch it up. Well, I'm glad I did. GRUB is very very cool. -I'll post more later. Jenni and I are damn hungry.