These particular suns are not Ultras, and won't run anything newer than solaris 9.
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Swafford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:48 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: More free boxes Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 11:39, Don Gould wrote: > >> I would also like to know if it's possible to install Linux on the >> sun machine, that would make an interesting lesson. >> > Yes, > > http://www.goldfish.org/books/O'Reilly%20Linux%20Web%20Server%20CD%20B > ookshelf/run/appf_01.htmhttp://www.goldfish.org/books/O'Reilly%20Linux > %20Web%20Server%20CD%20Bookshelf/run/appf_01.htm > > *BSD also. > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc/ > http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation_5 > http://www.obsolyte.com/sun_ss5/ > > Am about to try the free offering of Solaris 10 .. anyone else played with it? Cheers! Paul PS Happy New Year CLUG !
