Re: Sparcstation 2
Andre van Eyssen <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Cody Swanson wrote: > I have been given a fully loaded sparcstation 2 with solaris 2.5 on it > and I was pondering what OS I should put on it. I was thinking about > going with linux but most linux distros have dropped support for the > sun4c platform some time ago. Solaris 7 is a little too old to be useful > and solaris 8 would likely be too slow. I could install openbsd on it, > that might be my only choice for a modern OS at this point. Any ideas? Solaris 7 isn't too bad. You'll probably have to compile a lot of stuff yourself, but it isn't broken beyond repair. To be honest, the SS2 isn't a speed demon of a machine - you might want to just use it as an X-terminal to display from a faster box. -- Andre van Eyssen. mail: [email protected] jabber: [email protected] purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org purplecow.org: Random http://www.purplecow.org