[Scottish] Using old Sun and HP boxes for Linux

[William Anderson]

Colin McKinnon wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> I find it hard to get excited about running Linux on peculiar
> architectures - I guess the only reasons to do it are:
> 
> 1) you are getting old equipment for free (or just for pennies)
> 2) you really an enourmous fast new system and can't build a cluster
> 3) you want to foil the script kiddies (not a very good one)
> 4) you want to learn how to be a Sun/HP hardware engineer
> 
> ...but I'd be interested to hear if anyone has any other reasons.

5) it's interesting :)

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