[geeks] Opinions on the HP C3x00?

[Michael Parson]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 04:00:33PM -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 10:46:03PM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>
>> For my current NetBSD hacking I simply need more raw compute power.
>> Right at this moment I have to wait an other hour for a kernel compile
>> to finish. Thats why I even think about extreme solutions like a
>> PeeCee. :-(
>>
>> I may get a Sun E3k5. Not faster per CPU, but kernel comiles scale good
>> on multiple CPUs and E3k5 usually has multiple CPUs. ;-)
>
> Would you be building NetBSD from on top of Solaris then?

Kernel and user-land tend to cross-compile w/o too much hassle, pkgsrc
is still native-only.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org