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AMD-based workstation runs Linux.
The Ultra 20 M2 workstations are a new line of AMD-based workstations from Sun Microsystems. The silver-and-gray case is very clean and measures 17" x 7.9" x 18.5" (HxWx D). The system offers six USB 2.0 external connectors (two in front and four in back), two IEEE 1394a (FireWire) ports in front and two Gigabit Ethernet ports.
The unit I tested was shipped with a dual-core AMD Opteron 1218 processor at 2.6GHz with 4GB ECC unbuffered DDR2-667 (4x1 GB) DIMM. It can accommodate as much as 8GB of RAM in four memory slots. A SATA 3.0Gb/s 7200RPM 250GB hard drive had been installed in one of the two internal disk bays, leaving one bay open. The unit also ships with a DVD-Dual ODD drive, but no 3.5" floppy drive is available. The workstation has three PCI-Express slots, two x16 (one x1 electrical) slots, two PCI-Express x1 slots, one x1 slot and three conventional...