I've heard that open/netBSD run pretty well on those.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I have a couple Ultra 5 pizza boxes here slated for the recycler, if > anyone wants one for their museum. Also I think there's a DS10L AlphaServer > if anyone misses OpenVMS. > > > -----Original Message----- From: Josh Reynolds > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 3:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Refurb Workstations > > To be fair, I've had Linux boxes over the years that have been just as > stable. The combination of the sun hardware and pretty rigorous > kernel/software testing was a sweet deal though. > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Travis Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Ah yes... the slowest, most stable operating system ever. Back in the day, >> our email server ran on a Sun Ultra5 with over 8,000 accounts and >> regularly >> had uptimes in years. Our DNS server was also on an Ultra5 with Solaris >> and >> I think when we finally shut it down the uptime was over 5 years. >> >> Travis >> >> >> On 3/2/2016 11:30 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote: >>> >>> >>> Oh Solaris, how I kind-of miss thee. >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Whenever I hear or think of Workstation, I think of a SUN SPARCstation >>>> or >>>> something similar. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- From: Adam Moffett >>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 7:28 AM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Refurb Workstations >>>> >>>> I have had nothing but good luck with refurb desktops from Tiger >>>> Direct. You can get very decent machines there for $300. >>>> >>>> On the other hand, we had two refurb laptops in a row that were flat our >>>> broken. Not broken like "there's a cosmetic defect in the case," broken >>>> like "screen does not function" and "keyboard does not function." >>>> >>>> >>>> On 3/2/2016 4:00 AM, Gino Villarini wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> good place to buy refurb workstations? need to revamp our support >>>>> personnel PCs >>>> >>>> >>>> >> > >
