-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 January 2004 08:45 am, Angel wrote: > I am a newbee in the workstation /server world. > I am going to buy hardware to do biological modelling involving data > input/output, R programming (an statistical language) and a few > graphics visualization (some GIS). > I would prefer to run debian on whatever I buy. > I have some :)) money for this project (ca.4500 euros) and I am > unable to decide myself what would be the best solution: an apple > Xserver dual G5 2GHz or an Sun Blade 1500 Worksation. > Both are the same price but. Here are the specs of each: > ---------------- > Sun Blade 1500 Workstation > 1 1-GHz UltraSPARC IIIi Processor > 1-MB On-Chip L2 Cache > Sun XVR-600 Graphics Accelerator > 1-GB Memory > 1 80-GB 7200 RPM IDE Disk Drive > 1 10/100/1000 BaseT Ethernet Port > 7 USB Ports > 2 IEEE 1394 Ports > 2 Serial Ports > 1 Parallel Port > 5 PCI Slots > 16x DVD-ROM Drive > Smart Card Reader > Solaris 8 HW 5/03 Operating System Pre-Installed > > ---------------- > Xserver G5 > Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 > 1GB DDR400 ECC SDRAM - 2x512 > 80GB ADM (1x80GB Serial ATA) > CD-ROM > Mac OS X Server, Unlimited License > ---------------- > > > Which are the cons and pros of each setup? > As far as I understand the Xserver would be more easy to upgrade and > better for databases and the blade system more powerful, particularly > for the graphics (which are not the main difficulty of my project). > Is this correct or does the higher Hz of the Dual G5 mean it is much > faster than the UlraSparc???? > Thanks, > Angel
You might want to check to see if/how well Debian PPC suports the G5, or the Sparc. I think there are Debian lists/archives for both arch's. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAGYYgk7rtxKWZzGsRAqidAKCx51hYBRpfHFTP10GCie8Yr6tnUgCfR61I ycuiQuFqKfFBGKPa2PrGV1k= =XXSh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
