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

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Sat Jul 15 20:12:26 MDT 2000


Interesting insight.  I've done that too...

Hmm...

On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 07:43:28AM -0600, Brian Jarrett wrote:
> 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.

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Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>

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