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

Ken Hansen rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Oct 23 19:56:04 CDT 2001


The Cert books require GUI...If that is your ultimate goal.

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Hechinger" <wonko at arkham.ws>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Just a thought - what would be a good starter SPARC
system these days?


> > 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
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