in respone to: I'm going to buy a new set of servers to have at home. Q: Can I be adopted? I could be your 'at-home' system admin? :) Hell 20 years exp. and I can't get an interview and I'm stuck in the Pacific NW,USA and no $$ to get to where there are jobs...

From: Filipe Joel Almeida To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Dual XEON motherboard? Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:39:31 +0100

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 00:21, Philipp Thomas wrote:

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Why not go for a dual Opteron box (if you have the money)? SuSE Linux 9.0 will also be available for the AMD64 platform.

Hi guys,

Since we're on the dual xeons/dual opterons subject, here it goes:

I'm going to buy a new set of servers to have at home.

Objective: - 1 Mail server - 1 Storage/ftp server - 1 Backup server (I'll need to sychroize some DFS with client lans through VPN, so this one will have to be windows, or I'll get VMWare to emulate some Windows servers)

I was thinking about waiting for athlon-64, but I'm really getting undecided, and a dual processor system is getting more and more attractive. Could any of you guys shed some opinion/light about the diferences between Xeon/Opteron/Athlon64 and whats the best?

Thanks in advance,

FJMA

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