From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 8 16:56: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5126137B401; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 16:55:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA54364; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 01:55:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Pedro F Giffuni Cc: Greg Lehey , Brad Knowles , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS portability (was: Things you learn in school) References: <3B478570.67B193CB@pitt.edu> <20010709080330.G80862@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3B491A9E.D5392F7C@pitt.edu> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 09 Jul 2001 01:55:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3B491A9E.D5392F7C@pitt.edu> Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Pedro F Giffuni writes: > The problem is: how many people actually buy a new Ultra SPARC or an IBM > PPC to run Linux on it? I mean serious users trying to use it for > business purposes. Why not? UltraSPARCs come pretty cheap these days, and even Linux is better than *ack* *phtui* Solaris. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message