[geeks] Opinions on the HP C3x00?

[Joshua Boyd]

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've never felt much urge to put linux on anything other than x86, PPC,
or ARM though.  And the ARM is only because of platforms where it is
already there.  A lot of the appliances that people are using Linux for
I'd rather see running OpenBSD. 

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