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Old 05-25-2004, 10:46 PM   #1
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Dual Processor Linux


Which distros are suited for dual processor currently. I will worry about RAID later.

Thanks in advance.

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Old 05-26-2004, 12:44 AM   #2
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Which type of architecture are your processors?

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Old 05-26-2004, 05:23 AM   #3
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Pretty much all of them. The kernel (or that part of it, anyway) is the same in each distro. They often give an SMP and single CPU versions of the same kernel.
 
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Pretty much all of them. The kernel (or that part of it, anyway) is the same in each distro. They often give an SMP and single CPU versions of the same kernel. Then again I always end up compiling my own kernel so it doesn't bother me what the distro supports.
 
  


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