[SunRescue] New Netra

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 05:10:05PM +1100, Robert Rose wrote:
> >It's not the fastest thing but if you 
> >wanna colo a sun for light duty web serving this is the way to do it. 
> Should be fast enough for most of us.  No framebuffer means it's not a
> desktop and I'm having difficulty believing you'd need 400MHz for 2 x
> Fast Ethernet interfaces.

sunhelp.org/mrbill.net is a Sun AXe motherboard, pretty similar sounding
to this latest offering - only difference is the type of RAM used, the
CPU speed (300Mhz vs. 400Mhz), and the AXe has built-in graphics and
PS2 kb/mouse.  With 1 x 4.5gig HD and 1 x 9gig HD (5400rpm IDE), 128mb
of RAM - it serves tons of web pages, thousands of mailing list users
(~2000 on sunmanagers, ~1000 on sunhelp, ~400 on rescue, and about 
~500 on the other lists), PLUS my personal email, IRC, usenet, and
mail/news for a few friends.  The machine doesent even break a 
sweat.

bash-2.03$ uptime
  2:00am  up 11 day(s),  9:02,  11 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.16, 0.17

> >What do you guys think about it? I'm 
> >looking forward to buying one in about 4 years when they're $30 :).
> Bugger that, I want one now!  One of these and a SunRay will do me fine,
> just fine.  Now I just need to sell my Sparc 10 and Sparc 5 to justify
> it to the wife.

I like it, myself.  Sun will sell TONS of these to people who want a 
REAL computer instead of another overpriced VA Linux box ("Yeah!  lets put
a fancy faceplate on a machine, put a big blue LED on the front, and charge
3x what they're worth!").

bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX