[TriLUG] In Praise of Linux PPC

[mike shlitz]

Hi Ken,

I've had a couple old iMac's speeding along, running
Yellow Dog Linux...  They do a nice job!

Mike

--- Ken Mink <ken.mink at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>   I just got done with a little personal project and
> thought I might relate
> my experience here. I had an old 300A Celeron system
> that I was using as my
> main home server. It handled DNS, NFS, SMTP, IMAP,
> Apache, etc, etc for my
> home network. This machine was running CentOS 4.2.
> It had a couple of drives
> running mirrored. I also had an old Blue and White
> Apple G3 sitting around.
> Rather, it was being sat upon. I was using it as
> stool. It's a 300MHz
> processor as well. I decided to retire the Intel box
> and replace it with the
> Mac.
>   I went with Ubuntu PPC Server 5.10. After some
> fighting with yaboot to try
> to get / running on a mirrored device(it can't), I
> got everything installed
> and configured. Over the past week I've been moving
> services and data over.
> I cut everything over last night and am quite happy
> with the results. The
> one thing I am impressed with the difference in
> responsiveness. Both
> machines are 300MHz and have the same memory. Both
> are running with the
> majority of the filesystems in logical volumes on
> top of a large RAID1 md
> device. The PPC machine is so much quicker. I know
> PPC and x86 are different
> architectures and MHz to MHz perform differently. I
> just wasn't expecting
> the vast difference that I am seeing. The B&W is
> also very quiet in
> comparison and the clam shell case design make
> working on the internals a
> breeze.
>   I apologize for the long winded post. I hope
> everyone has a happy new
> year.
> 
> Ken
> 
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