[Pc_Support] Hardware recommendations.

[Bryan J. Smith]

"Austin (Ozz) Denyer" <ozz at ozz.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> As for SUN, well, I toyed with the idea, but decided
> against it.  I am less than happy with the issues that
> the Debian SPARC ports have been experiencing recently.
> I don't feel that the support is there any more.  For
> example, the issues I had recently installing Debian
> on a Sun Fire v210 were known issues from a year or so ago.
> I'm sure it's not a major issue to fix, but no-one has
> done it, despite numerous people suffering the same
problem.
> Yes, I could run Solaris on it but I don't want to.  I
> wanna run Linux <stomps foot and pouts>.

There's your problem.  ;->
Solaris is more mature than Linux in many aspects.

> Now, I know that SUN also offer AMD processors, but again
> their hardware is WAY overpriced compared to the
> competition.

Not from what I saw.  You get what you pay for.



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