| Still using an 8086 for a desktop? | | Obsolences does happen.... As I've said many times since the early 90s, *I* can afford top of the line computational power to solve my local problems. Other people are not so lucky, and may not be able to help grow the Internet any more if forced to buy the equipment I can. Also, there are better things to spend money on than top of the line computational power across one's entire network... (That is, I try to schedule my obsolescences so that today's top of the line stuff replaces the stuff that no longer is sufficient for the core, which then gets moved in to replace the stuff that is no longer sufficient for the region, which then gets moved in to replace stuff that is no longer sufficient for the edge, or sold to smaller providers, or turned into scrap/art. Accelerating this schedule is certainly possible, as is standardizing on only one box which is sufficient for the core, but I think either approach is gonna make our services much more expensive, and some of our competitors and customers just won't be able to keep up... The effects of decelerating this schedule, and how it applies in networks which are smaller than the ones I tend to associate with, or even end users at home, are left as an exercise for the reader.) Sean. ps - to answer the question, my desktop is now one of NetBSD -current with XFree86 CVS HEAD & gwm or Mac OS X 10.1 with XFree86 CVS HEAD in rootless mode coexisting with the native Aqua graphical system plug plug plug: 10.1 is awesome (caveat: i never used 9 or earlier extensively, so ymmv)