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Originally posted by iroc409
i really don't know much about linux, but considering the community things usually happen a little faster there, so it would not surprise me at all if it's built better for the architecture. however, FreeBSD is now supporting a full seperate release version as "tier 1" for the chip, so i imagine the support is at least fairly decent. i wouldn't imagine they'd name a release version and have it suck total balls.
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Yeah I saw that it was "tier 1" too... and then I talked to a few avid FreeBSD'ers in the same situation as me & they said stay away for awhile. I don't think "tier 1" implies superior performance as much as it does stability. If you are building a operton mysql server you are doing it for mega queries per second.
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if my memory serves me correctly, amd and ibm were somewhat of bedfellows in producing the opteron chip. i believe in the basic architecture the g5 and opteron are very similar, although the amd chip seems a little more refined. it can, for example, support 2x the memory of the g5 i believe. i dunno about the hypertransport issues, but that may also be an improvement.
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Yeah IBM and AMD have some partnerships I guess, but Apples currently "officially" ran on IBM chips. They are probably very similar to Opterons.. hell, maybe they are the same chip & Apple's marketing gurus decided that saying their powerhouse was made by big blue IBM sounded a lot better than AMD - and the stigma associated with it by people who don't know beans about tech (which are for some silly reason the people who are usually put in charge of making major purchasing decisions for companies).