Hi all. > > > Hi folks I have a number of Sparc Station 5's coming soon will sarge > > > run on them? I think they have 450MB hard drives and 65Mb of ram, > > > though I'm not sure until they arrive. I'm planning on learning about > > > clustering, and I am reasonably new to Linux (been running Mandrake), > > > so any help would be appreciated. Any good web sites you can point me > > > at? > > > > I run Etch on an Ultra 5 box here (writing this now using Sylpheed on > > that box now). > > I'll just say it so someone else doesn't have to, a SparcStation 5 and > an Ultra 5 are muuuuch different animals.
That's true. A Sparcstation 5 is a 32 bit machine whith SCSI disks, while a Ultra 5 has a 64 bit CPU (and IDE). The old Sparcstation 5 is a fine (home) server today. My SS5 has a 110 MHz CPU and the standard 8 bit graphics. I am still running Debian Woody on it, did not try Sarge yet. The SS5 has a special slot for a true color graphics card. I never have seen one and I do not know if it works with Linux/XFree86. 8 bit colour isn't much fun today. A 450 MB hard drive is not enough for an installation with KDE or Gnome, a small window manager like icewm, flwm ... shoud be possible. The high end 32 bit Sun workstation was the SS20 - with up to 4 CPUs. I have some dual processor SS20, I am planning to try clustering, too (Beowulf). As far as I know it works. Network interface: 10 Mbit/s. Regards, Hartwig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
