[SPARCbook] re: linux on GX

[Stephen Dowdy]

Len,

> Not being sarcastic or anything, genuinely curious.
>..,
> Can someone help me understand why people take these very slow Tadpoles and
> install Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc. when they could be using faster X86
> laptops?

Several reasons:

1) Most of us paid $200 or $400 for these.  They have 800x600 TFT LCD
   displays.  Tell me where you can get an equivalent PC Laptop for that
   price.  (any PC laptop i could buy for $200 just isn't very attractive
   to me)

2) Some of us really despise the entire PC (Pile-o-Crud) architecture.
   I only use PCs when i absolutely have to. (quality, reliability,
   interoperability have historically not been high on the PC's list of
   priorities.)

3) because it's kind of cool (yeah, the dork-factor)

--stephen
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