[luau] OSEF status?

[Dustin Cross]

Yea,

The sparc 5, 10, and 20 are all slow old 32 bit machines, but they make
great network devices and solid low bandwidth servers.  As an OpenBSD
router, firewall, mail or webserver they are great.  There isn't much up-to-
date Linux for Sun hardware, except Suse 7.3.  Gentoo would probally run
really nice on there, but would take a year to compile!  They work with X,
but you have to get over the 8 bit color.  If 8 bit color doesn't bother
you they would make great thin clients using The SPARC-Linux Xterminal
Package (http://www.pucebaboon.com/SLXT/).  Since we don't have keyboards
for these they will be better as network devices or servers.  The Sun 4m
hardware is great.

Dusty


> Vince Hoang wrote:
>
>>Are those sparc or ultrasparc stations? If they are the prior,
>>they are a bit slow to function as graphical terminal servers.
>>They make nice bridges or routers if there are space SBUS NICs.
>>Using them as clients to setup a Solaris JumpStart lab would be
>>another use.
>>
>>As a metric, it took me about 20 minutes to generate the DSA host key
>>after a fresh installation of OpenBSD on a sparc2.
>>
> I am not sure, but I think that they are just sparc stations.  That is
> a  painfully slow metric; I understand what you mean.
>