[geeks] Opinions on the HP C3x00?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 @ 16:25 -0500, Joshua Boyd said:

> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:36:53PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> It is my opinion that *BSD on SPARC is very lovely, but there are
> obviously some short comings and unsupported hardware issues.  Still,
> for numerous network tasks, I'd rather Open or NetBSD on SPARC over any
> other platform.

I second that.

I find NetBSD runs very well on SPARC, and generally faster than Solaris in my
experience, sometimes a whole lot faster.

Of course, my Suns are all old so... your mileage may vary.

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