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4-Way Sun Fire V40z Reviewed

Posted by samzenpus on from the compile-faster dept.

Hack Jandy writes "Anandtech has a pretty thorough analysis of Sun's V40z 4-way Opteron server that fits in a 3U. Among some of the more noteable benchmarks include a 2 minute, 30 second Linux 2.6.4 kernel compile! Who would have thought only a few years ago that Sun would be the new champion of Linux and AMD?"

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  1. Who says they are? by IANAAC · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Who would have thought only a few years ago that Sun would be the new champion of Linux and AMD?"
    They're doing what they have to do to survive.

    If they had their way, it'd be Solaris/Sparc all the way.