[Ubuntu-US-CA] Statistically speaking: server line makes desktop line more likely to be "Linux Friendly"?

[K.de Jong]

2010/11/18 Jeff Lane <jeffrey.lane at ubuntu.com>:
> On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:53 -0800, kdemarest wrote:
>> Just wanted to do a brief survey against a hypothesis to see if I'm
>> crazy or not.  Given mainstream computer manufacturers, is the
>> probability that their desktop and notebook systems will be "Linux
>> friendly" positively correlated to whether or not they have a Server
>> line?
>
> I can't speak for Dell or Compaq/HP/whatever, but having worked at IBM
> as part of the Linux group within System X, there is very little
> similarity between IBM System X servers and what few desktops they
> produce, if any.
>
> In general, server hardware at the enterprise level is very simple...
> the only things that MAY trickle down to desktop systems would be things
> like multi-core processors, memory systems and networking.
>
> The other more common subsystems generally aren't really pushed into
> desktops (back end management systems, hardware RAID device (not that
> silly HostRAID garbage), high end drives (SAS), peripherals for SAN,
> Infiniband, etc).
>
> There IS some trickle down as mentioned above, but beyond those things,
> not much in the way of "linux friendliness" comes from servers. In fact,
> those things that server systems have in common with desktop systems are
> actually generic enough as to be in the "Just Works" category.
>
> Consider the two biggest points of failure for Linux on desktop systems:
>
> Audio and Video.
>
> Enterprise and even SMB server systems do not usually come with audio at
> all, not even integrated chipsets, and their video systems are usually
> very stable, old and reliable chipsets.
>
> On Desktops, the converse is true... desktops constantly use newer audio
> systems and pull from a variety of low to high end video devices to
> provide graphics far beyond what anyone would want in a server system.
>
> Just my $0.02...
>
> jeff
>
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Well that is funny Jeff, I use a x226 as my desktop


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