[clue-tech] Modern/Current SPARC Linux Distros

[Richard Knechtel]

They make great terminal machines. I mainly use my Ultra-10 (440mhz w/ Elite
3-D graphics card) as a terminal box. When I worked at Cabela's the two Unix
Sys-Admins used Ultra-5's ("Pizza Box") as termina machines as well. Their
cheap and good for only specific tasks these days. When the parts die just
toss them out. But you can use just about any IDE Hard Drive of CD/DVD drive
with them. One of the Sys-Admins I know at Cabela's has a DVD burner in his
Ultra-5 and compiled the CDRTools and DVDRTools from scratch on Solaris 9
and was able to burn DVD's with his.

On 7/9/07, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
>
> Tony McDowell wrote:
> > I just got back from yardsaling where I got a fabulous deal ($5.00) on a
> > SPARC Ultra 5.  Anyone got any opinions on which SPARC distros would be
> > good to throw on it.  I know it's got the 360MHz proc with 128MB of
> > memory (currently -- the memory will be upgraded later).  I've got a
> > Solaris 10 install DVD around here as well, which I might try too.
>
> That's about what they're worth.  Maybe $10.  It's a 64-bit machine with
> a little better I/O than a Pentium II class PC, and similar overall speed.
>
> On the flip side, they're virtually indestructible.
>
> Memory will be expensive compared to the price you paid for the machine.
>   Hard disks aren't super-cheap either.
>
> Solaris 10 will not install on it.  It'll refuse when it sees it's an
> Ultra-5.
>
> I haven't researched it, but perhaps the OpenSolaris folks have removed
> that check or made it more lax for their version.
>
> I used to run Debian on mine.  It's a dog.
>
> Nate
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