[geeks] Opinions on the HP C3x00?

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:18:13PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> [0] Not that running AIX is a Bad Thing, but if you want to run Linux,
>      you can wave bye-bye to any snazzy framebuffer or wicked-fast I/O
>      cards.

IMHO the best thing to run Linux on is a cheap PC. There really is no
difference in "look and feel". Unless you cannot get the original operating
system, and it keeps the machine from going to the scrapper, I would not
bother. The same with *BSD. 

This is not meant to denigrate in any way *BSD or Linux ports to these
machines, just a point of view that they are special and they loose
that "specialness" if you don't run the original operating system.

At one time I had fantasies of having a small company employing many creative
geeks. I was thinking of putting together a computer room with old big
computers in for the employees to play with. Sort of a geek equvialent
of Ikea's ball room. :-)

Geoff.

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