[SunRescue] SS5 upgrade

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Dave Reader wrote:
> I have a Linux SS2/64Mb co-located. It's a nice stable machine, and a
> breeze to maintain. It's not doing any heavy work, but working it is.
 
> I suspect that solaris old enough to run on that hardware wouldn't be
> worth my time. I do have 2.5.1 media - last time i installed it (on an
> SS2) it took all night and then some (_just_ to run the installer). of
> course it would then want endless additions and patches and nappies
> changing before it was grown-up enough to go near the 'net.
 
Now, how does the performance of OpenBSD or NetBSD compare to linux on
such "slow" machines?

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Joshua Boyd