[rescue] sunpci note: TWO cards now available

[Steve Sandau]

George Adkins wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 26 January 2002 02:38 pm, you wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:29:48PM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> > > Give 'em what they deserve.
> > > An eMachines PC with XP installed.
> > > Yes, I tend to buy PCs myself - but they get loaded with OpenBSD.
> >
> > Well, this box will be dual-boot.  WinXP for the times when I have to
> > deal with the Evil Empire (tm), and probably RedHat 7.2 all the rest of
> > the time .. because, after all, Linux may suck, but it sucks less than
> > Windows.

If you want a Linux that doesn't suck, don't use RedEye. ;) The Red guys
put any configurable option/file as far away from the user as possible.
It is similar to Windows in that it tries to make everything automatic.
Nice thought, but it means at least twice as much work when the
automatic crap fails, as it is wont to do often. Figuring out where to
load the kernel module for a NIC (that's not auto-detected) for example,
is a real pain. Adding and configuring a second NIC w/o the GUI is also
a pain.

Try Slackware (the original) or Debian (supposed to be the most
configurable if you have a clue).
> 
> Oh, wait...  this is a box for YOU to use...
> Ewwww.

double Ewwww.

> What kind of software are you running that won't run under windows '98?
> Running under XP just means that you'll have to have twice the processor
> power and twice the memory for less performance.

Windows X-Pee-Pee is NASTY. The licensing thing sucks from what I hear;
it *eats* RAM, and if MS continued the brain-dead networking
configuration from Win2K, that just makes it unusable IMHO.

2K *really* only plays nice on an MS network (duh.) and is tricky for
some people to configure to play in an Internet/DNS environment. I hate
it.

-- 
Steve Sandau
ssandau at bath.tmac.com