“Penguin has been making a bit of a name for itself… so I
ordered one of their dual-Pentium SCSI systems in mid-June.
“Things got off to a slow start – it seems they are kind of
busy, and turnaround time on orders was more than two weeks. I
would have to wait a bit for my new toy…”
“Gripe number one: there was little hardware documentation in
the box.
“The system runs great – it’s a screamer. A full kernel build,
using “make -j 2”, takes just over two minutes. It’s everything I
wanted it to be.
“The version of Red Hat installed on the system is decidedly not
cutting edge: most of the updates to 6.0 released by Red Hat have
not been installed. Thus, the system as shipped by Penguin contains
a number of known problems and security difficulties.
“Overall I’m pleased. Penguin has delivered a quality system
at a reasonable price.”