Re: Power supply efficiency on older model Sun equipment

Craig Dewick wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Andre van Eyssen wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, D G Teed wrote:
>>
>>> Yes I expect so, a guy in my LUG says he runs CentOS 5.2
>>> with no problems.  Many people seem to be looking at them
>>> for home theatre applications due to the low noise, small
>>> form factor and cheap price.
>>
>> Some people might debate the 'Real OS' factor there ;-)
>
> CentOS is quite a good OS - that's what the Strongbolt OS for Cobalt 
> embedded-x86 servers is based around.
and, for the benefit of those why may not be 'up' on current linux 
distros - CentOS is Redhat Enterprise Linux. Identical, with the 
exception of the removal of the branded materials that identify it as 
redhat. and 100% free (no support contracts required as with RHEL).

It's a fine operating system. I recommend OS agnosticism. I run windows 
XP on my home desktop. windows vista home premium on my work laptop. 
solaris 10 on my anastrophe.com netra T1 in my garage. my backup MX and 
secondary NS is a PC running FreeBSD  at my brother's home. and the 
company i work for runs CentOS on the 50+ servers i administrate and 
maintain. oh, and the tiny email provider company i built then sold a 
few years back (smileglobal.com) is still running on an Ultra 2 on 
solaris 9 as the main pop/imap/webserver.

OS's are fun. Suns are fun. focus on the fun, not the 'my OS is beddar 
than ur OS' stuff.

now lets debate vi vs emacs!  :^)

-- 
Paul Theodoropoulos