[lug] Fedora *MEETS* KRUD comments wanted

Andrew Gilmore agilmore at uc.usbr.gov
Thu Sep 25 14:21:33 MDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 14:10, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
> Migrated a bunch of services at home off of one of my faster i386 boxes 
> and got it back for more useful things, and now those services run on 
> good old solid Sun hardware, slower -- but seemingly plenty stable now 
> for a few months.
> 
> All on an old junk Sun Ultrasparc machine that no one wanted for Solaris 
> because it would be painfully slow.  (Sun Ultra 1)  :-)

Ultra 1's cost us a cool $27K in 1997/1998, and that was a special
educational discount or something. Ouch.

It is painful to see how much hardware has grown since then.

Andrew




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