Re: AmigaOne or Pegasos for a smallish server?
Le lun 16/06/2003 à 01:02, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra a écrit : > I want to setup a server with Debian and Samba for a dozen MS > Windows 95 to XP clients. Would like to have some growth space as the > clients might become X terminals in the future, and use other services as > web cache, fax server etc. > > Obviously I'd like to have a small SCSI RAID and tape backup. > > What would be the preferred system for stability now, AmigaOne or > Pegasos? Currently your best bet is the AmigaOne (Teron PX), simply because there's a lot more emphasis on making it into a viable Linux server/desktop. Plus the Pegasos is currently admittedly buggy, and they're aiming at bringing out a new one before the end of the year (expect more debigging etc before it's quite ready). Of course, I have to declare an interest: I'm an AmigaOne distributor. However, that really is the situation as I understand today. Incidentally, the AmigaOne crowd, drunk with power after using 68K machines for so long, would also like HIGHMEM support fully debugged and readily available in 2.4.21 :) -- Rose Humphrey SARL Amont Informatique http://www.amont-info.com France
Re: AmigaOne or Pegasos for a smallish server?
Le mar 17/06/2003 à 10:44, Sven Luther a écrit : > > Do you think it production-stable for a server? Don't know about the Pegasos, but the AmigaOne has and is being fairly rigourously tested as a server : Samba, web, mail etc, all apps which Sven accurately points out as being perfectly happy without Altivec. > 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. Just to add to this, the G4 does have one disadvantage: it runs hotter, therefore requires more cooling and is noisier as a result. > They will survive, at least the chances are greater for Genesi to > survive than for Amiga. Tssst tssst, what were you saying about FUD? (I'd still like to see the Pegasos II tested for a while before recommending one for a server. Elementary prudence). Amiga do not market the AmigaOne, the name is merely licensed by MAI's European importer, Eyetech. They likewise have nothing to do with whether it sinks or swims, and even if Amiga Inc goes bankrupt tonight the AmigaOne will still be there intact. And I'll still be selling them :-p -- Rose Humphrey SARL Amont Informatique http://www.amont-info.com Z.I. d'Estarac 31360 BOUSSENS France
Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll: Distro for audio and MIDI development
Le jeudi, 24 juil 2003, à 09:49 Europe/Paris, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren a écrit : Anyway, choosing Debian was ok for a lot of people, but there's always someone who just CAN'T keep from buying newer and bigger and better, so suddenly we had a gazillion users with Radeon 8x00 and 9x00 cards out there. We could rant for hours about the brainwashing of PC users to always buy bigger and "better", which unfortunately also works on many AmigaOne users because the mobo uses ordinary PC add-ons. However, as a retailer there's another explanation - low end Radeon cards are getting harder to find: as an example, my wholesaler has apparently dropped Sapphire Radeons with names including numbers under 8500, and I'll be blowed if I sell the cheap'n'nasty no-name Radeon 7000s that are all they have left. I listen to Ole-Egil, I run testing :) Rose Humphrey Amont Informatique http://www.amont-info.com Distributeur AmigaOne pour la France
Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll: Distro for audio and MIDI development
Le mardi, 29 juil 2003, à 14:18 Europe/Paris, Fred Heitkamp a écrit : It the AmigaOne available? I thought it was pulled from the market? Yes, at the same time Debian stopped supporting PowerPC (can I hit him? Please?) Rose Humphrey Amont Informatique http://www.amont-info.com Distributeur AmigaOne pour la France
Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware
Le dimanche, 3 aoû 2003, à 09:45 Europe/Paris, Sven Luther a écrit : On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 03:21:41AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: No, as I said, this _won't_ work in general. Some low level initialization of the card usually needs to be done by the firmware. Unless you port the XFree86 bios interpreter to work on powerpc or something such. I think some experiments where already made, but i don't know if it is conclusive. The idea is to have the int10/vbe/whatever it is read the bios, and then pass it to an x86 emulator to execute it and intialize the card. Successfully done with the AmigaOne, where the graphics card is intialised using a x86 emuletion built into the firmware for that very purpose. The trouble is, the gentleman wants to put the card into a Beige Mac, and I rather think he's stuck with an expensive ATI Mac card. Rose Humphrey Amont Informatique http://www.amont-info.com Distributeur AmigaOne pour la France
Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware
Le lundi, 4 aoû 2003, à 16:03 Europe/Paris, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : It's not that simple The emulator exist, though it would be best to have it run either in userland (from an initrd ?) or from a bootloader than building it into the kernel. Only from the point of view of someone who's only ever going to use one OS on that machine, surely? (don't get me wrong, I'm all for it, but like all arguments, there is a flaw) Rose Humphrey Amont Informatique http://www.amont-info.com Distributeur AmigaOne pour la France
