I have an emac that I just updated to 4.8 macppc, and it as expected, it works great.B I used to run OpenBSD on an old ultra5, and it also worked great. x86 might be the most common, but the other architectures work very well too.
For what you are doing it looks like all these machines will be fine from a performance standpoint, but as Christopher said, the Athlon will be the snappiest. I'd still get the Sun box though, assuming the fan noise isn't a problem. -- Jeremy Chase http://twitter.com/jeremychase On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:14 AM, LeviaComm Networks <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 05-Nov-10 05:47, Felipe Mesquita de Oliveira wrote: >> >> C) Atlhon 64 X2 +5200, 2 GB RAM, 160Gb HD -> B US$ 320,00 >> >> The idea is to build an server with: WWW/Email/Firewall funcionalities, with >> better stablity as possible. >> > > You'll get a lot more performance out of the AMD X2. B Plus both i386 and AMD64 are still king in the commodity hardware market, and are a dime-a-dozen nowadays. B Literally everyone and their grandmothers own x86 based hardware. B The i386 platform has support for the most bits of hardware and replacement parts are stupidly easy to come by. > > -Christopher Ahrens- > -Co-founder > -LeviaComm Networks-
