Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:23:05PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Wouter Verhelst
>
> | On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:00:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> | > Darren Salt wrote:
> | > >I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written...
> | > >>Put them behind a firewall on a trusted LAN, use them to develop software
> | > >>for arm chips, and then just follow unstable or run non-security-supported
> | > >>snapshots. Apart from writing software for embedded arm things, I can't
> | > >>see
> | > >>the value
> | > >"Linux desktop box" comes to mind...
> | >
> | > But why would you spend over 1000 pounds on an arm Linux desktop box
> | > instead of a few hundred pounds on a random i386 desktop box?
> |
> | Because it's cool. In both senses of the word (have you ever had to
> | measure the temperature of an i386 box?)
>
> (amd64, but I guess the point still applies):
>
> : tfheen@vawad ~ > acpi -V
> Thermal 1: ok, 26.0 degrees C
>
> I think the room temperature is 19°C.
>
> : tfheen@golem ~ > acpi -V
> Thermal 1: ok, 34.0 degrees C
>
> (This is my home box, so a little less air circulation there.)
>
> Not exactly hot, are they?
And what is the size of the fan, and how much noise does it generate ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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