[rescue] Just a thought - what would be a good starter SPARC system these days?

Brian Hechinger rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Oct 23 10:25:07 CDT 2001


> > I don't want to imply that these are the only boxes
> > suitable for teaching/learning, but in today's climate
> > it seems that everybody wanting to learn *nix
> > "demands-wants-needs" graphical tools.  The days of
> > learning command line only seem to be waning......
> 
> Yeah. It's amazing how often everyone in my office looks at me when the
> GUI for Solaris, Oracle, etc. is unavailable. The rest of the time they
> laugh at me because I'm a "command-line junkie" as they say...

so the whole point of this was to put together sparc boxes for people to learn
Solaris on?  so give them a sparc2 with no framebuffer and have them use a
serial console or a telnet session.  using a GUI does not a Solaris Admin make.

-brian



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