Posted on Sunday, January 06 2008 @ 1:55 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Have you recently upgraded to AMD's Spider platform with their
quad-core Phenom processor and are running Linux? If so, and are
experiencing kernel panics, stability problems, and even a psychedelic
Ubuntu logo, you're not alone. Earlier this week we had looked at AMD's
new 790FX Chipset under Linux and now it's time to deliver the world's
first Linux benchmarks of AMD's Spider platform. However, getting to the
point of delivering these Linux benchmarks wasn't exactly smooth
sailing. In this article, we'll be looking at the AMD Phenom 9500
performance under Ubuntu 7.10 as well as sharing our experiences with
this new AMD platform.
Read on
at Phoronix.
