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AMD Donates Servers to Groklaw

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the uncruel-twists-of-fate dept.

Core 2 Duo writes "Apparently, someone at AMD noticed that Groklaw has been having trouble running on the old IBM servers ibiblio uses, so they donated two powerful AMD Opteron servers to ibiblio specifically for Groklaw's use. Curiously, this means that Groklaw is no longer hosted by IBM's servers, but SCO's own investor relations website is."

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  1. OMG! by Toe,+The · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, and the Swift Boat Veterans use Apache.

    It's like the world is upside down!



    Please engage sense of humor before flaming. Sheeze.

    1. Re:OMG! by corbettw · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Well, you got marked Flamebait when you simply asked a question and didn't use any inflammatory language, so it looks like the consensus is they're bad. Which is lame, since all they did was expand on the truth of Kerry's military service and talk about their recollections of what kind of officer and sailor he had been. Still odd how much the Left in this world hates people who tell the truth.

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  2. Re:I'd donate some servers to SCO by zoid.com · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It would be so sweet if they installed Caldera on it. I have a set of the original Caldera Network Desktop installation CDs including Preview 1, Preview 2 and version 1. It's interesting that the core OS was Redhat on those releases. I think it was Redhat 4.2. And this was way before I had ever heard of Redhat. As a matter of fact it was right about the time of Linux 1.0 .

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  3. Re:I'd donate some servers to SCO by afidel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually I used the Caldera Technology preview back in 2000 and it wasn't bad. In fact because it was based on 2.4 with 32bit UID's out of the box it was much, much easier to setup than Redhat at the time for use at Cisco. We had a NIS+ environment that contained many UID's above what would fit into the 16bit UID's used in the stock 2.2 kernal and getting glibc and everything else working with 32bit UID's was a royal pain. Eventually we developed a Redhat based supported internal distro but at the time the Caldera release fit my particular need.

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  4. Core 2 Duo? by squisher · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Doesn't anynoe think it's odd that this story about an AMD donation was posted by "Core 2 Duo", which is linked to the Intel page? Since there's no user page for that name, I'm assuming that it's not a person, but somehow a special submission... odd, together with this new Intel Opinion center... might it have caused some bias?

  5. Re:Core 2 Duo? by Hemogoblin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interesting. I didn't notice that until you pointed it out.

    Looking further, we can see that the last AMD story, AMD's New DRM, was submitted by DefectiveByDesign which links to the FSF page.

    Another possible example is the story AMD Athlon 64 6000+ Launched And Tested, which was submitted by Spinnerbait. It doesn't link to a page, but its a pretty suggestive name.

    Perhaps the editors are surreptitiously inserting their opinions into the submissions. On the other hand, this can all be explained by submitters trying to be clever. But thats not nearly as fun.

  6. Re:It's official by ozmanjusri · · Score: 3, Interesting
    This sort of story is tiresome enough when its anti-Microsoft weenie-ism.

    But ant-Sco weenie-ism is anti-Microsoft weenie-ism.

    Who do you reckon's behind all this, after all?

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