12 Oct
2002
12 Oct
'02
10:43 a.m.
--- John Ruschmeyer <jruschme(a)netzero.net> wrote:
Agreed. Linux on sun4c is a *dog* (I tried to install Suse on a 1+)
On a 32MB machine, Solaris 2.5.1 runs faster.
Yes. A BW2 frame buffer. CG3s (basic Sun video) and CG6s (mildly
accelerated) are inexpensive to free. They are both 8-bit. You
probably don't want to deal with 24-bit graphics on hardware that old.
It's slow as molasses in January, but it does exist.
If the IPC was free and you had a burning desire to play with a SPARC,
by all means go for it. For people who want to learn Solaris (friends
who are looking to enhance their career opportunities), I'm recommending
OT hardware - SPARC5, Ultra 1/170e, etc. To put prices into perspective,
I picked up an as-is SPARC 5/110 at Dayton for $40, with 3 x 32MB (the
cheap bastards), 5 x 8MB, no disk, drive sled, 100BaseTX/Wide SCSI
and a dead PSU. Obviously, I paid too much, but I did get a couple of
$10 DIMMs, a sled, a 100BaseTX card, and a spare motherboard for my
troubles. I would not pay anywhere near half that for sun4c hardware.
-ethan
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Well, that got
me closer to home. It is an IPC and looks like it isn't
really worth the time and effort. Just wonering how well they run
Linux with X.
On a Sun4c system like the IPC, the canonical wisdom is to avoid Linux
because of performance issues related to problems in the memory
management code. The better bet is NetBSD (go with 1.5.3) or OpenBSD. Looks like a
really low grade Sun, with the usual killer gfx output.
IIRC, IPCs had mono onboard video.