[ug-bosug] system upgrade ,needed help!

[Manish Chakravarty]

Hi Raju,

how fast is this system? Could you give me an approximate boot time to
CDE/GDM login screen?
It would be helpful for me as I am looking out for a system for myself.
Also, how much did you spend on this machine?

Thanks
Manish

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Raju Alluri <spurthi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sham,
> Welcome to the club! :-).
>
> I have been using AMD X2 4400+ with nVidia/GeForce 6150 chipset. Running
> SXDE (b72) for the
> last 6 months and it is running simply fine.
>
> Here is my configuration bought in September:
>     http://raju.spurthi.com/blog/?p=329
>
> In fact, my desktop is a real workhorse and runs at an amazing speed with
> 2GB RAM when running Solaris.
>
> Regards,
> - Raju
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 3/24/08, Ashwin Bhat <ashwinbhatks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > AFAIK AMD 64 support for Belenix is still in progress. Intel Core 2
> > Duo
> > > would be a better choice.
> > >
> >
> > Nope.. belenix runs great on 64-bit processors. Intels core2Duo
> > implements AMD64 specs.. so anything that runs on core2duo will run on
> > AMD, AFAIK.
> >
> > Anil
> >
> > PS : You might be talking about LiveCD mode that is 32bit. I dont
> > think there are plans to change this. The opensolaris kernel is
> > intelligent and the same packages are installed on both 32-bit and
> > 64-bit systems. Upon bootup, opensolaris recognizes the type of
> > processor and runs in that mode :) So any distro based on opensolaris
> > will behave this way, including Belenix, indiana, etc.
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