[KLUG Members] Server recommendations?

[Greg Mason]

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> I've talked to is very positive; and I work with PowerPC (but not 
> Apple)
> every day.  My only question there would be "Why the XServe?".  If your
> willing to bite the PowerPC bullet, and your going to run Linux and not
> OS/X, then pSeries offers more flexibility and per-buck-bang than
> Apple's server line (no surprise, the pSeries and iSeries machines are
> the servers of choice for every grunt-work-I/O-intensive application
> I've encountered).  And for moving bits to-and-fro they'll kick the
> livin' snot out of your stock-Intel(ish) server.
>
> But there is always the looming question: is your app available for the
> PPC architecture?  And in reality it AIN'T as easy as a recompile, as
> Mono PPC users have learned.   But for "standard" apps like OpenLDAP or
> Samba, sure.  When I retire my current primary file server (xSeries),
> the replacement will most likely be a pSeries.  It won't be an XServe
> because I want to be on the OS used at 95%+ of Samba installations.
True. Does the pSeries use the same PPC 970/970FX/975 chips?

also, if I'm not mistaken, can't you tune linux to be faster for 
specific things more than you can with BSD?

-Greg