[linux] Distro/Unix flavor survey

[Jeff Frasca]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Peter Woodman wrote:

> Nothing like a distro holywar to bring up activity on the list...

We've been pretty civilized so far.  No holy wars have flared up. 
Yet.

(BTW, awesome idea about the Mac Mini render farm.  They would probably 
do quite well for many types of low-cost clustering.)

Jeff
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> On Apr 20, 2005, at 10:59 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>> Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>> 
>> Man, Mac Mini's rule. Too bad they don't come with displays/keyboards
>> though >_<. The Mini's are basically  like iBooks I was told in terms of
>> specs.
>> -Garrett
>> 
>
> Yes, they do. They also consume very little power, which kinda makes me think 
> (if you could make a shelf to stack them on without overheating, as they 
> expel heat downwards) that a bunch of them would make a very nice cheap 
> render farm :D
>