Vince Hoang wrote:
Are those sparc or ultrasparc stations? If they are the prior,
they are a bit slow to function as graphical terminal servers.
They make nice bridges or routers if there are space SBUS NICs.
Using them as clients to setup a Solaris JumpStart lab would be
another use.
As a metric, it took me about 20 minutes to generate the DSA host
key after a fresh installation of OpenBSD on a sparc2.
I am not sure, but I think that they are just sparc stations. That is a
painfully slow metric; I understand what you mean.
We have nearly 30 power pcs that may or may not be usable, but,
it sure would be nice to do something with them.
They would make decent low end web servers. The best part about
this platform is that it would take a lot for a script kiddie to
find a working exploit. I had the most luck with Debian in the
past.
Excellent suggestion. I have been wondering if they could work as thin
clients, but, free standing debian workstations is a good thing. I love
debian on my ibook.
Hope to see you at some of the upcoming build/install fests.
scott
