I'd like to add my own good experience using Debian 3.1 on Ultra5s; both 333 and 400 Mhz models perform wonderfully well as web servers using PHP/Mysql and/or Postgresql.
One negative point though: I found switching to a non-English keyboard to be somewhat tricky and leading to an unpredictable and undocumented behaviour... Otherwise, these machines are really asking for Linux! cheers, Joseph --- Pete Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was using it as simply a second workstation > while my main > > workstation was > > down, and one that my girlfriend could use while I > had my laptop > > and tablet > > with me. However, I wouldn't mind putting it to > more well-deserved > > uses, > > like an LDAP server, backup server, db server, > etc. So, I was > > wondering what > > all the sparc experts out there think an Ultra 5 > would be well > > suited for :) > > I was using one as a management box until recently - > installed Sarge > and nagios - it was plenty fast enough for the job. > I have also used one as a slave DNS/Mail server. > > > In the case of a backup server, I have a connor > raid box I was > > considering > > connecting, but I think the hardware limitation on > this particular > > box is > > 12GB, so it might not be worthwhile (I do some dv > editing on my > > main machine, > > so I have several hundred GB's of data). > > The IDE limitation is 120GB (ish) - however, this > does not mean it > wouldn't be a useful backup box - stick a USB card > in, very cheap > these days, and attach an external drive. > Or pick up a cheap SCSI card - about �20 from eBay > and one of the 7 > or 12 slot external enclosures and have yourself a > nice RAID backup :-) > > The Ultra 5's (and 10's) still make remarkable good > workhorses in > these days of multi-core, multi-gigahertz machines > .... they make > wonderful development boxes too... > > HTH. > > Cheers, > > > Pete. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]