[Gllug] mini Linux?

[Caparo]

On Thursday 07 April 2005 1:57, Jake Jellinek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> True!
>
> Nice to see someone has already spotted our new Dolphin mini. I believe
> we may be the first company in the UK (or beyond!) to sell Debian
> servers based on the Mini Mac. In our tests they have performed
> astonishingly well, staying cool and producing enough performance
> through their CPU's and disk IO to serve millions of web hits an hour
> (of course this naturally depends on the content of your web site, but
> even intensive CGI's which shell out and access the disk on each
> instance can run comfortably at 20 hits a second.)
>
> I expect there will be a few people watching this to see how it works
> out :)
>
> BTW, we always offer GLLUG mailing list members a discount, just mention
> it to us if you are interested in anything we do.
>
> Oh, also, expect news of another legendary ice.cream.org party coming
> soon, those older list members should remember what fun this is, free
> drink and food and no selling or catches (just the odd wandering
> giraffe.)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Jake.
>
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 13:49 +0100, Caparo wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 April 2005 1:27, Dave Cross wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 12:11:06PM -0000, sunil gupta wrote:
> > > > I am talking here about a Dolphin Mini:-
> > > >
> > > > http://www.positive-internet.com/dolphin/
> > > >
> > > > which seem to not be Intel chips inside. Does this run Linux OK do
> > > > you think?
> > >
> > > Well, it seems to come with Debian Linux installed. Which would seem
> > > to imply that it runs Linux without too many problems :)
> >
> > Hi,
> >  The nice thing is if you use the Positive Internet guy's services you
> > can get feedback on this list as most of their staff hang out here:}
> >
> > --
> > TTFN
> > Caparo
> > http://www.saltmine.org.uk
>
> --
> Jake Jellinek
> Director
> The Positive Internet Company Ltd.
> http://www.positive-internet.com/
> 0800 316 1006
> We're good.

Jake,
 Can these servers be bought outright rather than leasing?
Just curious.

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Caparo
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