Re: Best distro for older dual Xeon SCSI



On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:09:49 +0000, Pete wrote:

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:14:38 -0600, ray wrote:

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:40:22 +0000, Pete wrote:

I am looking for a distro that will take most advantage from my Xeon
machine. I guess that means it uses SCSI and can take advantage of two
processors. Any distros to do this?
Tks.
-Pete

Yes - virtually any of them.

All the LINUX distro's that I tried at least worked.

XP wouldn't work without a propriety driver. Wouldn't install. No generic
driver.

It should not be an issue with Linux. Unix/Linux cut their teeth on SCSI.
The only requirement for the dual processors is an SMP (Symmetric Multi
Processor) kernel - one is included with all the major distros I'm aware
of.

.



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