Re: Does anyone know anything about Wheat Computers

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>]

Rebecca Ore <rebecca.ore@op.net>:
> The good, bad?  Opinions.  I've installed RedHat a couple of times so
> don't feel a need to prove stuff, but will be setting up a two box
> network at home.  I've had no problems with Micron, but wanted to
> support the side.  I know there's a place in New Hampshire, DCG, that offers
> installed Linux on Intel, Alphas, and Sun.

I know nothing about Wheat.  But the top guns in the custom-Linux-box
business are generally conceded to be VA Research, www.varesearch.com.
Linus Torvalds's personal machine is a VA Research workstation.

I use a VAR box they gave me about six months ago and it has been
nothing but a pleasure -- they build high-quality hardware and test it
to a fare-thee-well before shipping.  I like the company a lot; they
have a great attitude and they work hard at supporting the Linux
community (among other things, VAR actually hosts the Debian site and
is a major Slashdot sponsor.) 

Obligatory disclaimer: I have accepted a directorship on VAR's board
-- but only after spending a week there, helping them build computers
and getting to know their people.  I have high standards for who I'll
let use my name.  VAR meets them all.

(Someone else mentioned Penguin Computing; it was was founded by a
former VAR employee, my friend Sam Ockman).
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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would
... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
	-- Henry David Thoreau

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