On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 03:45:00PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:53:57PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:56:05AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:00:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > But why would you spend over 1000 pounds on an arm Linux desktop box > > > > instead of a few hundred pounds on a random i386 desktop box? > > > Because you don't want a 100+W dissipating screaming monster on your desk > > > ? > > > > You can get low power x86 systems that have much better performance (> 1 > > GHz). > > They would be too slow for autobuilder work though.
No more so than the 600 MHz ARM in the Iyonix desktop. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
