I have a positive impression. I've got 2 opteron systems. Both systems run Suse 9.1 One is a general purpose server and the other is a development workstation used to test a database application. General purpose server ---------------------- (1) Arima HDAMA motherboard (2) Opteron 240 CPU (2) 512 MB 333Mhz RAM (1) 8506-4LP 3ware 4 channel SATA controller (3) 250 GB Maxtor SATA drives This is mostly a web server with about 500GB of file storage. I had no problem at all installing or configuring Suse 9.1. This particular 3ware controller is supported during installation so I had no SATA problems. The SATA controller is running hardware RAID 5. This server is about a year old. It's been running it's current configuration for around 6 months or whenever Suse 9.1 first came out. I don't think its ever crashed or had any issues. The last time I rebooted it was during a power outage about a month ago. Mysql test system ----------------- (1) Tyan 2885 motherboard (2) Opteron 250 CPU (8) 1 GB PC3200 400Mhz RAM (1) LsiLogic Megaraid 4 channel SCSI raid controller (20) 36.7 GB 10k Fujitsu SCSI U320 HDD The main thing I was concerned about was the raid controller. I had a previous problem with it on the Arima HDAMA motherboard. The bios would not see it. But the Tyan 2885 had no problem. I have since heard that Arima has fixed this issue with a bios upgrade. Suse 9.1 had no problems configuring it during or after installation. Mark Johan Nielsen wrote:
Would be nice to have around for all considering buying stuff.
Single / dual / X-cpu systems Mainboard RAM Chipset All the info you'd like to add
Plz let me/others know how you dealt with problems if you had any
(And yes ... I'll probably buy a AMD64/Opteron myself in the near future)
Johan