Hi All, It all depends on what we are trying to achieve.
I have installed Debian on Ultra1s and used them as programming workstations (Qt, Php, Glade) and also as DHCP and/or DNS servers; they work fine and the graphic capacities with an ordinary suncg6 card and a 17'' Sun monitor are satisfactory for the price paid... This doesn't mean, of course, that we should compare things that are not comparable; I don't think anybody should expect to see an Ultra1 behaving like a PentiumIV... Cheers, Joseph --- Jim MacKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jim MacKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Debian Sparc" <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:29 PM > Subject: Re: Debian on Ultrasparc 1/170E > > > > Fast enought to be usable is always a bit of a > length of string type > > question. I would have thought the 'desktop > experience' would be > > comparable to a PII 400Mhz machine, if that's not > fast enough then > > changing to a lighter weight desktop environment > might help. > > Yes, it is a very relative thing. PII-400-ish is > fast enough to be usable > for me - and this machine can take a gigabyte of > RAM, which won't hurt > either. > > I want to do it more because it's cool than because > it's practical, but if > it can be both, bonus! > > Jim > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ 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]