Thanks for the feedback.<br><br>-tony<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nate Duehr</b> <<a href="mailto:nate@natetech.com">nate@natetech.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tony McDowell wrote:<br>> I just got back from yardsaling where I got a fabulous deal ($5.00) on a<br>> SPARC Ultra 5. Anyone got any opinions on which SPARC distros would be<br>> good to throw on it. I know it's got the 360MHz proc with 128MB of
<br>> memory (currently -- the memory will be upgraded later). I've got a<br>> Solaris 10 install DVD around here as well, which I might try too.<br><br>That's about what they're worth. Maybe $10. It's a 64-bit machine with
<br>a little better I/O than a Pentium II class PC, and similar overall speed.<br><br>On the flip side, they're virtually indestructible.<br><br>Memory will be expensive compared to the price you paid for the machine.
<br> Hard disks aren't super-cheap either.<br><br>Solaris 10 will not install on it. It'll refuse when it sees it's an<br>Ultra-5.<br><br>I haven't researched it, but perhaps the OpenSolaris folks have removed
<br>that check or made it more lax for their version.<br><br>I used to run Debian on mine. It's a dog.<br><br>Nate<br>_______________________________________________<br>clue-tech mailing list<br><a href="mailto:clue-tech@cluedenver.org">
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