[geeks] Sun x86 boxen/linux

[Kevin]

If they are just re-badged generic Intel stuff i'll keep my xSeries boxen.

Thanks,
/KRM

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:22:35 -0500 (EST)
Steve Haavik <shaavik at soc.lib.md.us> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Kevin wrote:
> 
> > Anyone here have any experience with Sun x86 based boxes running linux?
> 
> Well, we bought a small pile of LX50s a while back. Does that count? I
> haven't had to deal with Sun for any sort of support on them yet, but
> considering they are stock Intel boards in a stock Intel case with a
> different face plate, there isn't much to them. My boss found out that
> Gateway is selling the same thing (or close enough) for less, so now we
> buy those instead. I used to have the links for the Intel parts someplace
> but I can't find them now. Based on the docs on Suns site, it looks like
> the V60x is about the same as the last load we got from Gateway.
> 
> I didn't see any compelling reasons to keep the Sun Linux that came with
> the LX50s (it was just another butchered version of RedHat after all) and
> they are all running Debian quite nicely.
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