Elpacoloco's Journal: Exotic Hardware

Today I read slashdot's story about Debian, and how they're considering dropping some of their archetectures. (Story Here)

Debian supports something like 11 archetectures, the vast majority of which I have never seen in operation. Every computer store I have seen stocks only x86, and if you're lucky, you might find some AMD64. PowerPC comes from Mac computers. That's three.

Where on earth are these other 8 archetectures?

Suns

[Elpacoloco]

I have no idea where I could buy a sun workstation. I have never seen one, working or not.

For the money I'd pay on a PDA, I could get several x86 laptops. No one I know very well has a PDA.

But thanks for the info.

Re:Suns

[elmegil]

I have no idea where I could buy a sun workstation. I have never seen one, working or not.

Try EBay. There's a lot of the old desktop hardware floating around for pennies on the dollar, that you can put to productive use (webserving, firewalls, other types of networked services) with Linux on it, whereas current versions of Solaris are completely dog slow on the same hardware.

I know that's not really what you're asking, but there are a few useful architectures supported by Debian that may not be "everyman