[osol-discuss] Re: got $$ to burn-- what machine should i buy for opensolaris and linux?

2006-04-25 Thread Bob Palowoda
not sure if i want a laptop or desktop though. as far as laptops go the ferrari 4000 seems to be very popular. and i've been told that ASUS builds a nice laptop (i guess they make the powerbooks for apple). i think i want to stay away from the intel machines as i prefer AMDs and i work for

[osol-discuss] Re: got $$ to burn-- what machine should i buy for opensolaris and linux?

2006-04-25 Thread Wes Williams
Of course this add depends on your use and preference, but I'm partial to the wickedly fast Ultra 20 and Ultra 40. brbr Perhaps even a Ultra 20 band/b a Ferrari for about $4k? brbr N1 grid engine is free so you could pool those btwo/b systems if you wanted. This message posted from

[osol-discuss] Re: got $$ to burn-- what machine should i buy for opensolaris and linux?

2006-04-25 Thread Ché Kristo
I would recommend a 15 MacBook...Runs Solaris, OSX, Windows and some Linux distro's. And it just passed second revision. I didn't think I ever needed osx or windows until I had to do some video editing, unfortunately you need proprietary software to do meaningful video production and OSX comes

[osol-discuss] Re: got $$ to burn-- what machine should i buy for opensolaris and linux?

2006-04-24 Thread Stephen Potter
Even if Sun were to move to just using Fujitsu SPARC-64 chips, they're still SPARC, so the U45 is still a good choice. Obviously Sun is going to go away from the US-IIIi processor eventually (I don't think the roadmaps are too secret, are they), they've already got the US-IV/US-IV+ and the T1