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

[Brian Hechinger]

> ah - there is the rub - folks I talk to today want to
> learn Solaris8 as it is the "latest/greatest" - they
> don't want to "learn" 2.5.1 or 2.6 or 2.7 - that is so
> "old"....and of course an SS2 won't run Sol8...so the
> basic premise is back to what's the minimum to run Sol8....

then make it a sparc5 or a sparcLX, my point wasn't so much what machine
you give them, but that you leave out the framebuffer and make them learn
how to admin a solaris box, not how to move the mouse around.

-brian