I've been princing out various configurations of G4's the last couple of days for a multimedia lab at work. Yesterday the base G4 was a 400mhz for $1439. Today, it's a 350mhz for $1439. Bastards!
This should be a non-issue since, IMHO, any server should be on a UPS, regardless of OS. No sysadmin worth his/her salt would walk up to server (again, regardless of OS) and pull the plug, but that's exactly what you're doing if you're not using a UPS. If you're data is important enough to worry about losing it, then it deserves a UPS. And, before someone jumps in here and says that WinXX is better because it can be shut down automatically after going to batteries, so can linux. Don't remember the company name off the top of my head, but ars-technica talks about them in their UPS section.
As a side note, I've been using RH5.2 and now RH6.0 as a workstation for about 8 months now, and I'll never go back. I have access to all the programs I need, they run faster and are more stable than they ever were with NT (except Netscape, which still crashes, but at least it doesn't bring down the whole computer like it did with NT).
What's important to me is that I don't curse my computer anymore, and I don't have to reboot at least once a day anymore. Thanks Linus!
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I've been princing out various configurations of G4's the last couple of days for a multimedia lab at work. Yesterday the base G4 was a 400mhz for $1439. Today, it's a 350mhz for $1439. Bastards!
This should be a non-issue since, IMHO, any server should be on a UPS, regardless of OS. No sysadmin worth his/her salt would walk up to server (again, regardless of OS) and pull the plug, but that's exactly what you're doing if you're not using a UPS. If you're data is important enough to worry about losing it, then it deserves a UPS. And, before someone jumps in here and says that WinXX is better because it can be shut down automatically after going to batteries, so can linux. Don't remember the company name off the top of my head, but ars-technica talks about them in their UPS section.
As a side note, I've been using RH5.2 and now RH6.0 as a workstation for about 8 months now, and I'll never go back. I have access to all the programs I need, they run faster and are more stable than they ever were with NT (except Netscape, which still crashes, but at least it doesn't bring down the whole computer like it did with NT).
What's important to me is that I don't curse my computer anymore, and I don't have to reboot at least once a day anymore. Thanks Linus!