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On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:34:07PM -0700, Sean Hafeez wrote: |
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> ah, not to be an ass but why would you want to? |
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> i mean buy an intel box from dell or someone else to run gentoo on. the |
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> xserve's are made to be run with os x server. there is a hugh payback in |
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> the combo. the management tools are some of the best ever. buying an |
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> xserve to run linux on seems kind of dumb. |
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Our criteria were cost and reliability. We discounted Dell and |
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compaq because (in my experience) of reliability and TCO (with |
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regard to hw upgrades) respectively. |
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Of the other major players[1], all offered reasonably similar 1-2k |
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entry level machines (1Ghz CPU or equivalent, 1Gb SDRAM), but to |
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"double" the specs to 2 x 1Ghz, 1.5Gb DDR RAM, costs roughly four |
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times as much. The Xserve offers IMHO incredible performance at a |
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reasonable price in a 1U box. |
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Though we are also looking at running OS X alongside, Linux would be |
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preferable as we've been developing exclusively on RedHat and more |
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recently Gentoo, and no-one here has experience with OS X or FBSD. |
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Cheers, |
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Richard |
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[1] The decision to exclude minor players and BYO was not made by |
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me ;-> |
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Richard Jones |
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http://www.jonze.com |
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richard at jonze dot com |
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