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Evert <evert@×××××××.info> posted bifmu4-nhd.ln1@×××××××.info, excerpted |
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below, on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:04:11 +0200: |
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> Thank you for putting the whole problem in cleartext. I have forwarded |
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> your text to AOpen, hoping that even they understand it... ;-) (I |
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> understood the problem already, but it's not easy to get AOpen to see |
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> this/my point of view on the issue...) |
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Hopefully they can be made to see it. then. =8^) |
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FWIW, while they /are/ somewhat more expensive (being targeted at |
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servers), I've been /very/ happy with Tyan. They seem to have the best |
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Linux support of any of the big board makers, even offering preconfigured |
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lm_sensors.conf files in many cases (including mine), as well as |
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certifying to Red Hat, SuSE, etc. I was also quite surprised when well |
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after I bought this board and after many manufacturers would be end-of- |
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life-ing their products, Tyan was still updating their BIOS firmware, and |
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did so to provide dual-core support on this board and several others |
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where they could, even tho the board had never been originally designed |
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or marketed with that feature. That was quite a pleasant surprise! =8^) |
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OTOH, as I said, more expensive. It's a dual-socket-940 Opteron system; |
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a roughly $400 board. Still, that's in line with what other makers were |
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charging for similar at the time. |
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Anyway, altho I'll likely move back down-scale some at my next upgrade, |
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it's quite likely that Tyan got a repeat customer. I've been very happy |
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with both the board itself and with Tyan's Linux support (altho there was |
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a memory timing issue in the early BIOS versions that drove me crazy for |
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awhile, given I had generic memory that wasn't quite stable at the |
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labeled speeds; but they solved that nicely too; it just took a bit |
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longer than I'd have liked, given I had the problem at the time). |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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