AMD MP Athlon FreeBSD certified

RazzleDazzle writes: "AMD released a MP Athlon system that has been certified by Daemon News to work with FreeBSD. Read the full article here."

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SMP

[NWT]

Finally FreeBSD works fine with multiprocessor systems, the autor had no problems with his 2 Athlon MPs, that's really great. Finally, you can have a really powerful smp - FreeBSD server system for not too much money! The installation was completed with only one cpu, but a new kernel with the options SMP and APIC_IO enable both cpus.

AMD Does it's bit...

[gus goose]

... for Seti@Home.

Good to see that 3 months of use and 8 Seti Units a day gives hardware a certificate .... ;-)

In all fairness, that was a stressful test (CPU Wise), but the report could have been a little more fleshy given a 3 month review period.

I will certify hardware if I can up my SETI Stats at the same time.... ;-)

gus

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Certified to compute fourier transforms....

So, let me get this straight.

[watchmaker1]

Daemon News gets AMD to pony up a dual Athlon MP 1500+ system in exchange for "certification" and a review.

Daemon News is a dual headed site, "publishing" a once monthy web based "zine" full of largely irrelevant BSD "stories". They also have the daily section which is a low volume slashdot clone centered on BSD news running an inferior Slash clone based in PHP.

Though, being an OpenBSD user, I check the site regularly for snippets of news not picked up elsewhere, it has always felt like a site some guy runs in his basement. So, I was surprised that AMD would send them hardware.

And how much better off are we for AMD's gift? Are there any shocking revelations? Well, no. FreeBSD works in SMP mode, though the install kernel doesn't recognize the second CPU. Shocking. I've run FreeBSD as an MP3 fileserver/streamer in my basement for months on an old Dual Celeron 366 Abit BP6 I had laying around.

And what does the author tell us about performance? Why, two incredibly useful tidbits.

A) A dual Athlon 1500+ is much faster at running KDE than a Pentium 133 with 64 megs of ram.
B) A dual Athlon 1500+ is much faster at running Seti@home than a Pentium II 300.

So, here's a shout out to all the hardware companies on the planet. If you contact me and send me free shit, I'll happily certify that it works, keep it, and write an obtuse, irrelevant and worthless "review" on how your system is faster than the Toshiba 386 laptop I currently do my Non Linear video editing and POVRAY on.

Re:So, let me get this straight.

[Arandir]

Daemonnews does more than just manage two websites. They also print a deadtree version of the magazine, sell software, books, and misc. stuff, hold BSD related courses, and sell support.

I will give everybody certificates.

[Corpset]

That is, if they send me free hardware. I don't mean to sound mean, but isn't it something fishy about that "review"?

Hell, if I could get something for free that thing alone would be a bonus in my review. Free stuff is good stuff. Even if it's bad, it's still good just because it was free. And now it's certified.