Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 08:40:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Celeron Question Message-ID: <200006051540.IAA17504@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2000 09:17:22 EDT." <200006051317.JAA87525@entropy.tmok.com>
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> i've held the celeron in very low respect, i just don't like what it is (keep > in mind i'm a long time sun guy so i tend to have a problem with x86 in general) > and i have noticed that under WinNT/98 it tends to be rather unstable. for > example. we have a couple Celeron based laptops at work, and running both 98 > and NT they would crash constantly. our internal systems guy put 2000 on these > laptops and POOF, stable as a rock. so my question is, obviously some kernel > tuning was done on 2000 to make it work well with the celeron. maybe the > celeron has a hangup or two with certain bits of the current x86 instruction > set, i don't know, This is all insane speculation, and totally off the mark. The Celeron shares the same core as the other PII/III family parts, and the aspersions you're casting against it are simply not true. > but anyway, back to the question.... what is the current > status of FreeBSD on the Celeron? i'd like to throw together some low cost, > moderately powerful FreeBSD boxes, and the Celeron looks like it would fit > the bill, as long as it is stable, otherwise i'll look to the Athlon, or worst > case, K6-II, although a slot2/370 combo motherboard so i can upgrade to full > strength Pentium IIIs when the time comes is an attractive deal. (the time > being after the Pentium VII has been released and the IIIs are dirt cheap) It works "just fine". The Celeron is a very attractive cost-competitive processor for a lot of low-end server applications, where "low end" is a very relative term. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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