On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:37:32PM +0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti > >Dutra wrote: > > > >> I don't expect it to do any graphics: what I want is a free (as in > >>speech), silent, energy-efficient, beautiful server. It will do Samba > >> > >> > > > >Well, a G3 altough somewhat slower than a G4 would be much more energy > >efficient, and you don't really need the FPU or Altivec units, which are > >the G4 two advantages. > > > > > With the new Altivec library from Motorola there might be more > application using the Altivec in the future, but for now a G3 is good > enough. > However, I can build a complete server using a via C3 processor for less > than 120 Euro here in Norway (and am in the process of doing so, since I > was given one of the JACKCON cpacitor fitted Abit motherboards recently > and have started to replace the capacitors :-) ), so I would check out > this option as well. Not that I don't like PPC (I've got a bunch of PPC > machines), but if a more efficient approach is called for, I would at > least _consider_ a C3.
Yep, that is sure, altough i believe the C3 would be much less performant clock for clock, considering it was less than a match for a Celeron based on the PIII core, and supposedly the G3 are faster than a PIII clock for clock. Also, the VIA Eden motherboards only sport a single PCI slot, while the pegasos sports 3 and the i suppose that the Theron board have at least as much. > >They will survive, at least the chances are greater for Genesi to > >survive than for Amiga. Genesi is making money on other businesses too, > >so they have cash incomes, while Amiga has been laying off staff > >recently, if i read the rumors correctly. Too bad they both had to fight > >themselves like spoiled children instead of working together, but that > >has been the history of Amiga since back then. > > Except the AmigaOne (as Pegasos supporters _constantly_ go on about) has > NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THE AMIGAONE except licensing out the > name. The AmigaOne is a MAI/Eyetech project, with MAI providing the > designs and Eyetech providing the distribution and support. Come on. FUD > is no better when coming from you than from Rose. Sure, which is why it would be better to name it by its non-amiga name. It is only a Theron motherboard, straight from the MAI design, is it not ? I think some people are even selling these without the amigaOne name or something such. And for a Linux board, who cares anyway. > The AmigaOne has G4 modules since LONG ago, and a dual G4 module has > been made. But _at the moment_ there's only the single 800MHz G3 and G4 > modules available. Since the targetted OS for these machines doesn't do > dual-CPU yet (and might not for a long time), the market for a dual G4 > just isn't there yet, I think. Even though I would buy one ;-) Linux would run fine on those, would it not ? > >As said, try contacting Genesi directly, they are based in France and > >Luxemburg, if i am not wrong. http://www.genesi.lu/ would be the right > >place for that. > > > Oh, and Terrasoft are NOT distributing the Teron at this point, so > that's a moot point. And as mentioned before, if Amiga Inc goes bust, > there's NOTHING that would affect the production of the AmigaOne, except > possibly a name change. I will still use it just like I have up to now, > and so will a LOT of people. Sure, sorry if my words seemed like FUD, as said, i have not been following the amiga side of stuff since a long time, and have heard the above only from rumor sites, and was hoping a bit that the ones of you who have amigaones and are aware of the details could fill us about it. Friendly, Sven Luther
