On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:11:01AM -0400, bofh wrote: > On 10/29/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So if nobody makes really good hardware then there's nobody to reward > > for it, so you end up buying bad hardware and rewarding the maker for > > it. > > If given a choice, I think I like Sun's sparc hardware most of all. > Though IBM's boxes do allow LPARs from what I understand. And > apparently the new power6 boxes will also run/translate x86 > software(!), or so I heard. >
However, looking at what old Sun sparc stuff is on Ebay, there isn't much that could translate into something usefull around the home. Most are 1U boxes; great for application servers but you can't load them up with disk drives. Whereas the IBM pSeries 7025 or 7026 has more room in which to play. As for LPARs, I don't really need them. Unless, I suppose if they really do provide rock-solid virtualization so I can run an OpenBSD firewall in one LPAR and another instance of OpenBSD (or Debian, whatever) in another LPAR for doing work or setting up a file server. Doug.
