Re: Sparcstation 2

Robert Chase <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.at-home
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Cody,

It is hardware thats specific to the Solaris OS.  I would put Solaris on 
it.  You could get a PC to run Linux or NetBSD and would get better 
performance out of PC hardware and have less hassle dealing with sparc 
specific limitations of the port you run.  Solaris 7 is pretty 
lightweight and would run "ok" on it.   It really depends on what you 
would be using it for.  Are you going to be using this is as a 
workstation type machine or as a system to do something on your network? 

Robert Chase
http://www.systemV.org

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?
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