AMD Donates Servers to Groklaw

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."

Comments

It's official

[twenex27]

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

Re:It's official

[renegadesx]

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

AMD Donates Servers to Groklaw

[Anonymous Coward]

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

I'd donate some servers to SCO

[Weaselmancer]

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.

Re:I'd donate some servers to SCO

[flyingfsck]

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.

Re:I'd donate some servers to SCO

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Thanks for the S.O.M. reference!

[Anonymous Coward]

..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

Hopefully they have them installed and working...

[old7]

because here comes the Slashdotting.

What's in it for AMD?

[e9th]

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

It's a trap

[tangent3]

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

Re:OMG!

[Geoffreyerffoeg]

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?

Re:OMG!

[mclaincausey]

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!