Re: What does your Sparc do?

Thanks for the suggestions. It's just that I really don't need the
box.  They do cost money to keep on and since this is in my
home.....

Regards,
Earl Shannon

Joacim Melin wrote:

>I'll second that. OpenBSD runs very nicely on that box.  I used to  
>run DNS, Apache and Postfix on a SS5/170 and it worked like a dream.
>
>On 18 jul 2007, at 17.19, T. Ribbrock wrote:
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>>On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:40:31AM -0500, Earl Shannon wrote:
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>>
>>>I've two ultra5's and an ultra10. The sparc 5 I have I'm getting  
>>>ready
>>>to trash. Since it had the 170 Mhz upgrade its just too much of a  
>>>pain
>>>to get linux installed and I don't want to run Solaris at home.
>>>      
>>>
>>You could try OpenBSD - I used to run a SS5/170 as firewall in the
>>late OpenBSD 2.x/early OpenBSD 3.x era and that worked very nicely.
>>
>>Cheerio,
>>
>>Thomas
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