[Cialug] OT: Rock-Solid Workstation

[Aaron Porter]

On 9/21/07, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> It seems like true tier one hardware is a thing of the past.  If you were
> going to buy a brand name, rock-solid workstation (Dual processors, good
> graphics, higher-end disk subsystem) which vendors would you look at?

I used a Sun W2100z with Debian for a couple of years, and other than
a really annoying BIOS bug where it would decide that the case fan
wasn't spinning and refuse to boot every 8mo or so (eventually fixed),
it was a great machine. The current Sun AMD workstations look pretty
cool too.