Re: What does your Sparc do?
Joacim Melin <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:07:54 +0200
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I think the SS5 is pretty conservative when it comes to power consumption. It runs pretty cool too, which is a big plus in my book. On 19 jul 2007, at 15.03, Earl Shannon wrote: > 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: >> >> >> >>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:40:31AM -0500, Earl Shannon wrote: >>> >>> >>>> 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 >>> -- >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> -- >>> ------- >>> Thomas Ribbrock http://www.ribbrock.org >>> "You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams >>> come true!" >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Aurora-sparc-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user >>> Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Aurora-sparc-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user >> Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Aurora-sparc-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user > Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html > _______________________________________________ Aurora-sparc-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html