Re: how do you use your linux sparcs?

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 12:15 am, Brad Mattick wrote:
> My ultra 2 sits in the closet unplugged... silly or what? Someday soon I'll
> figure out why I bought it and use it again.

Want to sell? :-)

I currently am using an Ultra 5 w/256MB and two HD's for my utility 
download/file server box here.  No CD -- replaced it with a drive caddy 
assembly for a 60GB HD, with a 2.5 notebook HD (5GB) for boot.  It's running 
Aurora 0.32 at this time. 

I also have a U10 at home with 768MB RAM and a 9GB HD, with a matching drive 
caddy system so the 60GB drive from the 5 can be plugged in.  I'm still in 
the process of setting it up like I want -- one thing I'm looking at trying 
to do is getting OpenOffice.org running there, if it won't be too slow.  This 
is the only system I have (other than my Athlon laptop) that has a monitor.

I am running an SS5 and an SS4 for webservers -- the 4 with an external SCSI 
rack with a DAT, CD, and 4.5GB drive running cool.  

I also have a handful of SPARCclassics and a couple of IPC's.

One fo the places I work for has 30 U30's that I'm planning on clustering with 
a form of MOSIX, if I can get the patch to apply and run.

I'm using a combination of OpenBSD, Aurora, SuSE, and Red Hat 6.2 (which is 
soon going to be upgraded to Aurora) on these machines.  I find the Aurora 
dist does several things faster than SuSE 7.3, the most notable being the SSH 
startup time.  No YaST, of course, but it does have a working up2date, but no 
current repository as yet.
-- 
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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