Come to think of it, OpenSolaris probably does too.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>>

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