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

[Ken Hansen]

All good reasons!

(and see below)

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Potter" <apotter at planetcable.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Cc: <apotter at vern.bogon.nul>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Just a thought - what would be a good starter SAPRC
system these days?


> > I was wondering what folks suggest to frineds interested in getting a
SPARC
> > system at home "to learn Solaris".
>
> I universally recommend (now, while Sol8 runs on them) LXen.
>
> Rational:
>
> small  (won't piss off wife)
> cheap "
> common ram
> runs current solaris
> uses cheapass 50 pin scsi drives
> 25 pin serial for console
> tp ether on board
>
> I recommend snapping up a sun bootable CDROM at the same time.

> > SS/10s and SS/20s are just too slow, but after you drop a VSIMM or two
> > inside, they become great workstations, but even dual SM71s seem pokey
> > compared to current Celeron 500 MHz boxes.
>
> You have a funny idea of slow.

I was arguing from a user perception standpoint - a dual SM-71 feels much
slower than a Celeron 500 Linux workstation.



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