From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 15 9:23:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B31315195 for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 09:23:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.224]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06234; Sat, 15 May 1999 10:23:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <373D9F90.19653F47@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 10:23:44 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Terry Lambert , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: desktop, was linus on BSD References: <199905111939.MAA15534@usr04.primenet.com> <3738ACA5.EBC965C7@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Wes Peters writes: > > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > A workstation with IDE hardware? > > > > > > Oh, you mean a PC... > > > > Or a Darwin. No, not the Apple stuff, the Sun stuff. > > Or any recent Sun Ultra (not Ultra Enterprise). El cheapo Sun > workstations with PCI motherboards, IDE drives, M64 framebuffers and > rebranded OEM monitors. Which just beat absolute hell out of the SPARCstation 5 on my desk now. You seem to imply there's something wrong with buying a fast, reliable workstation for $2500. I think it's great. Finally a low-end Sun with 16- and 24-bit color. That M64 framebuffer beats the TGX hands down, and Sun monitors have ALWAYS been OEM'ed, you don't think Sun actually makes monitors, do you? OTOH, we're putting together a couple of two-processor "PeeCees" to test Linux and FreeBSD on, to see how fast they compile compared to the Suns. If they help the pmake pool enough, we'll build a dozen or so of them, stick them in the lab, and let them crunch compiles all day long. When we finish the evaluation, I'll write an article for Daemon News (and/or something like Dr. Dobbs) about our experience. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message