[ILUG] trialling Sun hardware

[ollie at eillo.org]

Cool - any indication of price difference between the itanium and Niagara? Been on HEAnet for four years now - thats four happy years of websucking :) One more snapshot of the Arch Linux repo before i finish up for good :)




On Fri, 19 May 2006 10:20:17 +0100, Pádraig Brady <P at draigBrady.com> wrote:
> Justin Mason wrote:
>> it seems giving a T2000 a test-drive has certainly paid off for one
>> ILUGger!
> 
> Nice free trip Colm!
> 
>>  
> http://news.com.com/2061-10808_3-6073040.html?part=rss&tag=6073040&subj=news
> 
> Tech details here:
> http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/category/niagara/
> 
>> ILUG on-topic bits:
>>
>>   'MacCarthaigh said that Linux ran better than Solaris on the machine.
> A
>>   Sun representative blurted out that the company will soon announce an
>>   allegiance with a Linux provider.'
>>
>> roffle!
> 
> 
> :) It's ubuntu by the way:
> http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2156209/sun-support-ubuntu-linux
> 
> Pádraig.
>