RE: Linux on netapp filers

-- Michael W. Sphar - IS&T - Lead Systems Administrator SMBU Engineering Support Services, BMC Software -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of linux4ever@hushmail.com Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 12:23 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Linux on netapp filers to use anything but 100% open source in the enterprise is a moral crime. no company should pay money for closed source evil platforms that do not strive to increase the common good. plus linux outperforms just about anything on the market when you do it right. why would we want to support microsoft or companies that engage in the killing of third world people and put profits in front of mankind? we dont want a linux server just a nice appliance that we can put linux on and use proven technologies like ext3 or reiserfs and serve up our open source content. i strongly doubt WAFFLE is as robust or fast as similar linux raid filesystems. perhaps if netapp switched to linux they could also help the environment and help companies too but i dont know much about if they care about the people >On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:04:30 -0700 Blake Golliher >thelastman@gmail.com wrote: >>Installing linux on an awesome box like a 940 is pretty insane >>dude. >>As a server, you might find it underpowered. It's got 6g of >>memory, >>and 1.6 P4 Zeon processor (two I think). While you can get a >>modern >>Dell 1950 with a dual core Intel proc and 8g of ram for around >6k. >>Maybe you got a smokin' deal on the 940? Maybe you have no >>support, >>or any licenses on this box? I'm not sure you are going to get >>what >>you want out of this. A 940 is an awesome OnTap platform, for >NFS >>block storage. As a platform for Linux or BSD, it might not be >>the >>best of choices. >> >>Good luck, >> >>-Blake -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- Click for free info on online degrees and make $150K/ year http://tagline.hushmail.com/fc/CAaCXv1S7Yc7BMeOuIymzf7zQymAMmSx/