3 Aug
2009
3 Aug
'09
11:54 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 12:14 AM -0400 8/4/09, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
Zane, Curtis,
Since I have several of the video and keyboard converters, I swear by
the Ultra 5's and 10's I had one of the Blade 100's but can't see that
they are that much better than the 5's. I suppose that if Sun has
knocked them out of the Solaris support roadmap, I'll be criticized for
this posting, but the 2.9 I have works fine for these machines. And
they are dirt cheap. With 2.9 (and sort of with 2.8) you can put as
large a disk as you like, and except for using the sun keyboard
connection and mouse they are just fine. As I said, I ended up with a
deal on converters, so I can kvm one w/o any problem. I have 4 or 5 of
the 5's and their size and power consumption is just fine.
I agree that the macos may be where I go with Zane though, but am
waiting to see where the next spin of macos goes (sorry for the current
discussion).
Jim
Looking for 'best' desktop Sparc....
assume it would be one of these
three, no ?
Take a look at the heat output. My current desktop Sparc is a
SunBlade 1000, one slight problem it puts out so much heat I can only
use it in the Winter. I don't have that problem with the Ultra 60/2450.
At the same time I'm having a hard time justifying a Sparc anymore.
What's the point, as much as I love Solaris, now that Oracle owns Sun
I really have to question how long Solaris will be around. Just get a
Nehalem based PC or Mac, personally I'm trying to figure out how to
afford a Nehalem based Mac Pro.
Zane