NewsForge: LinuxWorld Boston: The Hardware Side

“I thought LinuxWorld Conference and Exposition (LWCE) would be
all about GNU/Linux distributions and related software products,
but it’s not. Hardware has its place, too. Intel and AMD both have
large areas dedicated to promoting their brand names. Sun and IBM
are the hardest chargers of the bunch, lugging in their biggest,
baddest machines to demonstrate. Read on for an overview of the
hardware products on display at LinuxWorld Boston 2005.

“Sun and HP both have dual Opteron workstations and servers on
display, with little difference between the two brands in terms of
capabilities. Both support two dual core Opteron processors, up to
16GB of DDR400 RAM, and are equipped with dual port SCSI-320 disk
controllers…”

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