i've been using systems from penguin computing for 3 or 4 years and i
couldn't be happier. i run nearly all of my infrastructure on these
machines, oracle, mysql, dns/dhcp, apache, cyrus imapd, postfix, etc. my
oldest penguin is a relion X1 and has been in production for 4 years, no
hicups. all these machines run SuSE with a few debian systems in the mix
for a diskles compute cluster.
good luck.
David Mackintosh wrote:
Hello List,
I think it may be time to buy a new computer, and I'm fishing for
some recommendations. I'm asking here because one of the goals I
have is to retire both the P3/700 and the U10 I have and run
everything (everything includes the Sun Ray Server Software) on one
box. I'm also budgetly constrained, so I'm extremely
price-sensitive. And the budget isn't likely to improve any time
soon (kid #2 is on the way) so this computer has to last a while
(see reference to 4 year old P3/700 above).
I'm really just looking for general opinions on what I should be
looking for.
My targeted use is:
- nasty java wiki-log thing (snipsnap)
- Fetchmail and IMAP server (3 users)
- light HTTPD server
- mail reading (mutt)
- dns/dhcp
These items are currently running on the P3. On the U10, I have:
- SRSS (1 blastwave-gnome user; maybe 1 or 2 more in the future)
- outbound ssh sessions
- web browsing (firefox)
In addition, I'd like to add:
- Microsoft Windows compatibility (CrossOver, VMWare) for a few
applications like Quicken, and pokerstars.net :)
Right now I've scoped out some entry-level white box computers which
have Athlon64 processors and can be expanded to up to 4GB of RAM --
these seem like they would be appropriate, however I'm not sure if
Solaris x86 will run on these CPUs? It looks like the 64-bit Fedora
Core 4 and RHEL 4 will run on them... but SRSS isn't supported on
that platform (yet).
Dell has some nice offerings, but they get really expensive really
fast.
The W1100z systems are way too expensive for me; also I'm not really
comfortable with them as a client of mine ordered a whack of them
hand has experienced gratuitous problems with them. I like the look
of the U20 systems, but they price out at about twice what the
entry-level systems do for us Canadian users. Are the Opteron
processors really that much better?
Regarding the OS I'd run in this thing: I have about a million years
of RedHat family experience, so I'd prefer that as my Linux flavor.
I'm not opposed to SuSE/Novell, though, if that is what it takes.
Some specific questions though:
- will VMWare run under Solaris 10? (My guess: probably not.)
- will CrossOver run under Solaris 10?
- is SRSS support for the 64-bit and/or 2.6.x RedHat Enterprise
family available or comming soon?
Any comments or insights would be welcome.
Thanks for your collective time!
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