On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 09:49:03AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>Would be nice if finally some non-x86 hardware would actually be > >>available. > > > >It has been available for ages, and well-supported by free software as > >well; and I am not only speaking about loongson-based systems. > > > > > i mean at reasonable price.
It is. Sun Fire (SPARC) servers are selling by the pallet load on ebay. They are super high quality machines with many really nice features and they are readily available and cheap. They run 32 or 64 bit SPARC applications, and OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Solaris 10 all run on these machines. -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments Code Blue or Go Home!
