On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:49:50PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:55:11AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sven,
> > Should I even be considering a switch from comodity-x86 arch to RS/6000 > > when I personally am not a kernel hacker? I'm looking at the RS/6000 > > because of its inherent reliability as opposed to x86 reliability based > > on cheap replacement when it breaks. > > What is your wisdom on moving from x86 to RS/6000? > > Well, it depends on the RS/6000 you are considering, myself i have an interest > in more recent IBM hardware, so that will mostly be supported in the near > term. > > On the other hand, there is a good kernel (not debian) powerpc community which > should care about those needs of yours, but the official d-i status is pretty > much a mess, but more bug reports from people like you can only help. Bastian > Blank also is making good work on powerpc kernels at the moment, and there is > a new effort going on for the oldworld machines. > Personally, to keep it straight, I differentiate between the more recent IBM as pSeries and the older as RS/6000. I can't afford a pSeries but I can afford a 7026-H50 (dual 604e 332, expandable to 4-way), 256 MB expandable to 3GB, three PCI busses over 9 slots. As far as d-i, I've never been able to get d-i x86 to boot on anything I've got (I guess its too old, the most recent being a Pentium II) and end up using 3.0 boot-floppies then either CD, floppies, or the basedebs.gz on a Zip, followed by an update. Do you know how the performance of dual 604e compares with Pentium 4 from a user perspective? I haven't found benchmark comparisions. I'm looking for comparisions from real-world usage like blasted java and flash in mozilla (on a 486 its click-have-dinner-click-again) and browsing through pdf files. Everything else I do is fine to tolerable on a 486. With a faster computer, I hope to do things like use a USB vidio capture dongle to transfer VHS tapes to DVD, use a scanner, store and retouch digital camera images, etc. In general, what is your wisdom of using an older (though still PCI) RS/6000 for usual desktop stuff? (please ignore the physical box size issue). Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
