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Hi,

Yes, that is about the way I see it. I would really like to play with the
powerpc system, and make YDL run on it.

But really the sun was built to be a server, and may be better for it.
Although, I guess I could compromise and get an Xserver.

Thanks,
Al

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Longman, Bill wrote:
> > So, what are you saying. Should I run powerpc, or a sun.
>
> That's ultimately your decision.
>
> As a geek, I'd love to play with the PPC and get YDL running on it, if I
> could.
>
> As a miser, I'd buy the Sun because I know I'd have lots of software I could
> run on it (assuming it still had Solaris on it.) I haven't tried Linux on a
> SPARC, but I know I wouldn't want to run it for very long. Again, it would
> be something to try and get a feel for it running on that platform. We all
> know how much fun it is trying to get source code compiled on !x86 machines.
> I don't even want to think about a BSD distro on a SPARC. SunOS was bad
> enough....
>
> (Don't get me wrong. I *love* Suns - but only Suns that run Solaris.)
>
> Bill
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