This will be server for some advanced web engineering students. Sounds like you've had good experiences with it. Thanks,
Pete Ballasy ---- Ian Cass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P Ballasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Being unfamiliar with Sun hardware and any Debian > > distro, I have some specs to run by you all to see > if > > I should, in reality, dump the Solaris 5.7 OS on > our > > Sun Enterprise 250 and replace it with Debian 3.0. > > Our E250 here was installed with Suse Linux years > ago before I came along > and started using Debian everywhere. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > uptime > 11:25am up 173 days, 23:11, 2 users, load > average: 5.62, 6.58, 6.76 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > uname -a > Linux aerosmith 2.4.19 #1 SMP Tue Aug 6 15:47:06 GMT > 2002 sparc64 unknown > > It's only ever rebooted on the rare occasion that I > upgrade the kernel. It's > our mail server & is rock solid stable. > > We've also got 2 x E450's and an E420 which are also > rock solid stable. > > I don't think you'd want to use the E250 as a > desktop device because Linux > does not support the environment monitoring system > on these machines, so the > fans run at full speed all the time rather than > switching to low speed. For > us, this doesn't matter as they are all cabinet > mounted. > > -- > Ian Cass > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
