[SunRescue] Q on "optimal" OS for Sun4c machines, now that Solaris 8 won't run

[Mike Nicewonger]

I myself occasionally participate in the Linux Users Group at UMBC, I have
seen more than a few labs full of both Sun and SGI machines. I *really* hope
that this trend of borgification does not get here.

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Walkup <rwalkup at cheqnet.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Q on "optimal" OS for Sun4c machines, now that
Solaris 8 won't run


> Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> > On July 12, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
> > > >   I dunno, from my perspective it's pretty mainstream.  I can drive
> > > > through my area and point to no less than a dozen buildings in which
> > > > there are SPARCstations running NetBSD.  They're all around me.
Seems
> > > > pretty mainstream to me.  Maybe I'm just lucky?
> > >
> > > Actually, I live in central Wisconsin, and I've yet to find a bigger
> > > installation of SparcStations than in my house (two sparcstations and
my
> > > SparcBook) in a 100 mile radius (the local colleges use all NT).
> >
> >   Microsoft is pushing NT into schools as hard as they can...so
> > they'll have wave after wave of college grads who've seen nothing but
> > NT, so they'll order NT when they get to their new jobs.
> >
> >   There's a lot of high-tech in my area...a *lot*.  I've found that,
> > the higher the "tech", the lower the concentration of NT machines.
> >
> >        -Dave McGuire
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> Apple did the samething in the k-12 schools.  From my personal experience
as
> an *old* (40) student and a part time worker in one of the tech offices at
> University of Wisconsin-Superior, the people who run the labs, maintain
the
> network, and take care of the staff/faculty offices are pretty ignorent
about
> unix of any sort and, in some cases, little better than power users of MS
> software (eg. they know how to install a custom version of Office 2000).
The
> computer science dept has bought *an* Ultra 10 which will be used as a
server
> for compsci classes next year.  Most of the comp sci profs are big fans of
> NeXT, but that's dead.  A recent grad donated 4-5  classics, but they're
not
> all running yet.  Looking around on the internet, I don't see much
difference
> in other UW campuses.  It's a wasteland.
>
> Roger
>
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