[Sunhelp] What should I look for?

[Jonathan Eisch]

Gregory,

I use a SparcStation 5 (with a 110 microsparc-II and 96mb of ram...) as my
primary computer.  (not as a server, a SparcStation 20 is better for server
type jobs)  It runs great.  I can run Solaris 7, CDE (haven't run gnome on it,
but I'd doubt you'd have problems), Netscape Communicator 4.6, StarOffice 5.1,
Apache, Samba and MySQL without any big preformance hits.  Before my '5', I
used an ELC as my primary computer.  The 5 is a huge imporvement (the
motherboard is not in the back of the head).  I think you can pick them up for
around 5 hundred.

-Jonathan

Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> Hello there!  I've got two Sun workstations, one is a SPARCstation ELC, on
> which the monitor doesn't work, and the other is has a label that says
> SPARCstation 330, which I haven't been able to find any info on.  Regardless
> of what either of those two machines can do, they're certainly not capable
> of being a good workstation.  By good I mean one that I can run windows on,
> along with Netscape, and hopefully GNOME.  Now, my real question...  What
> would be your recommendations for a SUN workstation if I want it to perform
> reasonably well, but can't/don't want to spend a fortune on it.  I say the
> Ultra 5 on Sun's website, but I'm not sure if I want to spend two grand on
> what will probably be a toy until I can get a good office suite and
> GroupWare client for it.  Any suggestions?  Thanks,
>         Greg
>
> Gregory Leblanc
> Network Admin
> Concordia University
>
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