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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!

  2. 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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    Weaselmancer
    rediculous.
    1. 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.

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

    because here comes the Slashdotting.

  4. 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."

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

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