cool!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edwin Casimero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] OT: Linux Dream Machine
> My dream machine is the cheapest linux server I can
> operate!
>
> I presently have a most treasured Pentium 90 with 64MB
> of RAM, and 500MB hard disk. It's my internet
> gateway, print server, web, ftp server and
> X-workstation running netscape, staroffice (remote-x)
> and terminal apps via telnet.
>
> I also have another one which is my router and file
> and print server in a remote office hooked up and
> makes our WAN. It is a 486-66 32MB and 2G hard disk.
>
> I dream linux 'cuz I can run with cheaper hardware
> with better reliability.
>
> --- "Daniel O. Escasa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sabi ni Ian noong Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:24:53 +0800
> >
> > > Gee, well ok. I'll get this when linux/390 is
> > mainstream already. In the
> >
> > Nah, wait as well till the hardware prices go down.
> > Still in the millions of
> > pesos at the moment.
> >
> > > meantime, i'm content with having a 5 server farm
> > consisting of 8-way SMP
> >
> > Sounds like a setup in the millions of pesos as well
> > <g>
> >
> > > penguincomputing boxes. Granted, linux doesn't
> > scale well beyond 4, i still
> > > want them 8! \8)
> >
> > Too bad I came late to the Penguin Computing
> > presentation at last year's Linux
> > conf. The Penguin reps claimed that their boxes
> > scaled well, and I wanted to ask
> > what changes, if any, they made to the kernel to
> > accomplish that. And further to
> > the point of scaling, have there been any studies of
> > performance increment per
> > additional processor compared to NT? I remember
> > seeing a paper several years
> > back (NT 3.5 pa yata) which said that NT's
> > dual-processor performance was 170%
> > better than a single-processor, and a quad-processor
> > offered a performance
> > increase of 165% over a dual. Any
> > processor-increment studies on Linux?
> >
> > Mabuhay.
> >
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