Solaris 8 Anyone?

[Nelson Garcia]

That's the place.
I got me a Sparc5 from there back in December.  I use it mostly to play with
and to collect logs, etc.  Mine came with RedHat installed.  You can order
the CDs from Linux Central for about $2.  I think that Debian and Mandrake
also have a Sparc (and Ultra Sparc?) distro.

Not bad at all for $150.  Good if you have several headless Linux/Unix
servers and want to run X sessions remotely.  You can really stretch one
good machine to many users for $150 a seat. A lot of old Sparcs are finding
homes in computer labs that way.

I would guess that my Sparc5 runs about as well as Linux on a 133-200Mhz
Intel chip.  Some apps seem to run slower on the Sparc and there are less
applications available but, overall, I'm happy.

Aloha,
Nelson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Green" <aloha_moon at yahoo.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 01:12 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: Solaris 8 Anyone?


> I think that might be the place on Mapunapuna behind
> Wholesale Unlimited - Hawaii Computer Recyclers, I
> think it was called.
>
> Out of curiosity, how does a Sparc 5 or a Sparc 10
> compare to an Intel machine for performance with Linux
> or Open BSD? Is it comparable to a Pentium, PII or
> Celeron?
>
> Also, do they take proprietary memory, or is it
> something standard that intel PC's would also use? I
> might want to try out a Sparc box running Linux just
> for educational purposes myself.
>
> Aloha,
>
> Rob
>
>
> --- jay <jay at musubi.org> wrote:
> > if they are, could someone find out for me?
> > i'll be in back on island in two weeks and could
> > use a sparc5 or two...
> >
> > =jay
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, mmn wrote:
> >
> > > Just a thought:
> > >  there was an add in the Online Connection paper
> > about a clearence sale
> > > where there were Sun Sparc 5s and 10s with
> > monitors on sale ($150-
> > > $200). I went down there a week ago. They were
> > unloading more sparcs
> > > when I got there. They didn't have any cleaned up
> > to boot up but I was
> > > told that they give some sort of warrentee on ones
> > they sell...with
> > > Linux as the OS. Wonder if they are still there..
> > >
> > > ---