[SunHELP] os for ultra-1

Steve Sandau ssandau at gwi.net
Sun May 7 14:58:16 CDT 2006


Arthur Wouk wrote:
> i have an ultra-1E 200mhs cpu, 1 gig ram, adequate disk space running
> solaris 9.
> 
> i would like to speed it up a bit, if that is possible, by going to
> either a free/open/... bsd or a linux/sparc os. 
> 
> anyone gotten much improvement this way?

One other suggestion if you are running Gnome or CDE, you might try 
XFCE. I installed Sol10 on my U2 and was very disappointed with the 
performance of Sol10 and Gnome. I am much happier with XFCE. (Yes, I 
also have to learn how to tune Sol10 some.)

Steve



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