Gene C. <czar@xxxxxxxxx>: > Yes, I have an Opteron system also and have been impressed with its relative > performance (even with my Opteron 140). Indeed. I have a single Opteron 3400 that is cranking a measured 1.65 times better performance than my previous machine on doclifter, my monster Python app -- which doesn't sound impressive until you consider that the previous machine was a 2-processor SMP with 1.8GHz Athlons. So my real-world throughput is as good or (allowing for Amdahl's Law inefficiencies) better than what I'd get from a 6 GHz Athlon, if such a thing existed. > The folks behind Fedora Core are trying to pick architectures > for which there are a large number of potential users. Thus, you have i386 > (i586 and i686), x86_64, and (maybe) the ppc. That should do it. I expect the PPC to rise in importance rapidly over the next two years, but I don't see anything other than x86_32, x86_64 and PPC achieving significant market share. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
