Re: [SLUG] smp functionality

From: Andrew Wyatt (awyatt@bbsgamers.com)
Date: Sun Jan 20 2002 - 09:07:13 EST


You installed the uniprocessor kernel, go back and get the SMP kernel,
and install that one.

On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 18:36, Mikes work account wrote:
> I have just installed the 2.4.9-12 kernel on RH 7.1 and we have a dual
> processsor Netfinity. When I booted the new kernel I lost my dual processor
> functionality. How do I implement that capability. I thought all the
> kernels were to have that built in?
>
> Michael C. Rock
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Robin
> (Roblimo) Miller
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 4:38 AM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Yet another IBM commercial for Linux
>
>
>
> > The only ill-effect of these commercials is that they portray linux as
> > something solely for the corporate world: a lay-up making, server-farm
> > replacing workhorse of an operating system. Even the average-joe
> > police investigator in that "They Stole All Our Servers" IBM
> > commercial says, "What's a Server?" ... In TV commercials, there are
> > very few incidentals.
>
>
> These are ads for IBM, not ads for Linux. I've spent a fair amount of
> time talking with Susan DeKeukelaere, who's in charge of z/390
> marketing, and to her Linux is a sales tool for IBM hardware and
> services, not a "cause" of some sort.
>
> Get a couple of bumps down the corporate ladder, into the tech crowd,
> and you find lots of Linux junkies. But they don't control the ad budget. :)
>
> FYI, and a ray of hope (unless you hate IBM): There is a significant
> movement within IBM (spawned by the techie crowd, natch) to push desktop
> Linux both internally and as a customer option.
>
> I think we should be happy that IBM mentions Linux at all in its TV
> spots. Believe me, when most of your friends/associates are tech-types,
> it's easy to forget that only a tiny percentage of the population has
> even heard the word. The guys at Bentley's (semi-biker bar in Bradenton
> I go to sometimes) sure haven't, even though most of them have computers
> and Internet connections (mostly AOL).
>
> - Robin
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