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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. It's official by twenex27 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The anti-SCO funding conspiracy has widened to include IBM, AMD, *and* SCO!

    1. Re:It's official by cyphercell · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hey, get back on topic with the anti-SCO weenie-ism, psh what are you doing?

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    2. Re:It's official by renegadesx · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now I get it, AMD is a front for IBM!

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    3. 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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    4. Re:It's official by richlv · · Score: 3, Funny

      but, but... amd implements drm. they have ati, which has crappy drivers in linux. but they donate servers to groklaw.
      now, how should i politically motivate my buying decisions ? i shoud run around frantically now...

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  2. AMD Donates Servers to Groklaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    SCO's "investor" relations website?

    I don't think that there's very many "investors" in SCO any more. Perhaps the server space could be put to better use :-)

    Neil

  3. 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 Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 4, Funny

      I can't remember what the Slashdot Party Line is on the Swift Boat Veterans. Are they anti-Kerry and thus pro-Bush and thus bad? Anti-Kerry and thus good? Pro-truth and good? Pro-lie and bad? Just plain weird?

    2. Re:OMG! by mclaincausey · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's true: reality has a left-wing bias. Don't allow reality and facts to brainwash you with their bias: disregard the parent and indulge in hate- and fear-fueled delusion!

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  4. I'd donate some servers to SCO by Weaselmancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, just to keep things fair. But unfortunately they're Linux, and I don't have enough cash to buy licenses for them. Ah well.

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    rediculous.
    1. 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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    2. Re:I'd donate some servers to SCO by flyingfsck · · Score: 4, Funny

      I could load Caldera Linux on an old E-machine and ship it to SCO, but I think that would be too cruel, even for SCO.

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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. Re:I'd donate some servers to SCO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Most people today wouldn't realize it, but OpenServer and UnixWare were excellent products to use even into the late 1990s. Before about 1999, Linux just wasn't suitable to use for most serious server applications. Sure, you could run a small web or FTP server on a PC running Linux, but that's where it maxed out.

      For larger sites run on PC-based, your options basically came down to Windows NT, UnixWare, OpenServer, or BSD/OS. Although the trend is changing now, most administrators then wouldn't go anywhere near Windows NT. Many administrators had experience using Solaris on large Sun systems, so they found using the SVR4-based UnixWare easy to adapt to.

      While BSD/OS was perhaps a more stable operating system, UnixWare and OpenServer often had better hardware support. If you can find the driver floppies for hardware you bought in the mid-1990s, there's a good chance that you'll find UnixWare and OpenServer drivers on there, along with those for DOS and Windows. OpenServer and UnixWare aren't as appealing today as they were then, but in those days they were often the best UNIX systems to use on PC hardware.

  5. Thanks for the S.O.M. reference! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..found at the end of the article: So... somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good.

    So thanks P.J. for the Sound of Music reference. Where do I begin? I am sixteen going on seventeen... or maybe Edelweiss, Edelweiss, you look happy to meet me... or maybe even when the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember AMD's gift, and then I don't feeeeeeeel soooo baddddddd

  6. Hopefully they have them installed and working... by old7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    because here comes the Slashdotting.

  7. What's in it for AMD? by e9th · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is this their way of atoning for their heightened interest in DRM? "We'll give PJ two servers, but you give up framebuffer access."

  8. It's a trap by tangent3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hi PJ, we will need to meet you to sign some papers for the servers...

  9. Core 2 Duo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why is a Core 2 Duo submitting news about AMD anyway?

    1. 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.

  10. SCO "logic" by defy+god · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry for the use of the word logic in connection with SCO, but I believe the following scenario wouldn't be too far fetched:

    • AMD Donates Servers to Groklaw
    • Search for an IBM/AMD connection through Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 742,000 for ibm amd partnership. (0.13 seconds) [also, note how obvious the connection is by how quickly google came up with an answer]
    • Arstechnica's actual headline: "IBM and AMD partnership extended through 2008"
    • SCO spin: IBM blatantly funding Groklaw!
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  11. Never tongue kiss a Gift Horse by BillGatesLoveChild · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh delicious irony. It only seems like yesterday when someone said:

    "AMD plans to block access to the framebuffer in hardware to help enforce DRM schemes,
      such as allowing more restricted playback of Sony Blu-Ray disks.
      They can pry my Print Screen key from my cold, dead fingers."

    http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/28/14OPcurv e_1.html

    Groklaw; Better head down to Staples for some legal pads and boxes of biros. You're gunna need them! ;-)