<div>I had a conversation With SUSE Last year, they May have changed.</div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>"Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles@compuware.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>> From: David Lane<BR><BR>> Looking in the PC stores I see a huge drop in cpu prices and the New<BR>> Duo has Hyper threading so the operating systems "See" 4 CPU's. the<BR>> last time I checked some Linux Distro's only allow 2.<BR><BR>I thought most of the commercial distros (Red Hat, SUSE) had abandoned<BR>per-CPU licensing and were allowing as many as you could stuff in? I also<BR>thought that hyperthreading was not counted as a 'licensed' CPU and only<BR>physical CPUs counted, even when they were doing per-CPU stuff?<BR><BR>That seems borne out by this:<BR><BR>http://builder.com.com/5100-6390_14-5355332.html<BR><BR>The non-commercial distros (e.g. OpenSUSE, Ubuntu) won't have any
arbitrary<BR>CPU limits.<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR><BR>Ray Ingles (313) 227-2317<BR><BR>"Several thousand years ago, a tribe of ignorant near-savages wrote<BR>various collections of myths, wild tales, lies, and gibberish. Over the<BR>centuries, these stories wore embroidered, garbled, mutilated, and torn<BR>into small pieces that were then repeatedly shuffled. Finally, this<BR>material was badly translated into several languages successively.<BR>The resultant text, creationists feel, is the best guide to this complex<BR>and technical subject [of origins]." - Tom Weller, _Science_Made_Stupid_ <BR><BR>The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the named addressee or an authorized designee, you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you received it in error please notify us immediately and then destroy it. <BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mdlug
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