[lug] Re: Linux Hardware Was: Linux on HP

[Brian Jarrett]

Nate,

Maybe it's because the tactic used by most to introduce Linux into the
company was to run it on some old machine that wasn't being used by another
platform.  I know I've done it.  We have several high-powered machines to
run NT for web and mail.  Since Linux doesn't REQUIRE the hardware to be
useful, it gets placed on whatever is still around.  So now all the new
machines are the latest and greated for NT.  Once the NT servers get
upgraded, Linux gets the scraps.

In hindsight it's been a bad way of introducing Linux, because the mentality
is not "Wow, just think how much Linux could handle on this Dual-PIII,
seeing how well it ran on that Pentium 166" its more like "Well, NT requires
so many resources, and Linux works with much less, so lets buy the new stuff
and put NT on it."

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Duehr [mailto:nate at natetech.com]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 12:08 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: [lug] Re: Linux Hardware Was: Linux on HP


Change of topic...

Why is it that many companies seem to be unwilling to grasp the concept
of running free software on expensive systems?  I run into this
mentality at work also, and I'm still trying to figure it out.

They'll spend a fortune on the latest and greatest from Dell or Compaq
on NT servers, but they're constantly cutting corners on our Linux
systems.  The original spec for some of our systems was the very nice
2RU rack-mount system from Penguin Computing.

Somewhere in the process, I ended up with little cheap Celeron 1RU
systems from a no-name shop.  

Now I'm all for saving money, but when production systems are involved,
why the constant drive to save money on the Linux systems?  Does anyone
else run into this sentiment at work?  Is it to pay for the Compaq's?

Heh... :)

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 08:16:59PM -0600, Kyle Moore wrote:
> Anyone remember the name of the project to run Linux on HP's PA-RISC
> systems? I'm ordering a nice new N-series box and was kicking around the
> idea of installing Linux on it to see how it runs. Giving the CIO a
> heart attack by showing him Linux running on a box they just spent that
> much money on would be sort of funny. I'll just tell him that we decided
> on Linux because of the license fees of HP-UX. Then I'll promptly
> install HP-UX on it to keep my job.
> 
> -lu;r
> 
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