Well, he can run a more up-to-date version of Macromedia/Adobe Flash!! :) (Currently ISV support is still better for Sparc/Solaris than x86/Solaris. (Although this is slowly changing).
If you aren't going to be running commercial/proprietary software, or needing to develop for a production Sparc environment, then an older Sparc's advantages are diminished. Cheers, Brian P.S. - I still use a 500 MHz UltraSparc IIi based system, with 512MB ram as a small server. (Otherwise I am all x86). On Feb 17, 2008 6:16 AM, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm just wondering, what am I giving up if I dump the > > U10 w/ > > Solaris10? Reliabilty? Does the U10 have any unique > > capabilities > > worth considering anymore? > > An Ultra10 has no "unique capabilities", that is, unless you consider the > OpenBoot PROM and the SPARC(R) V9 processor to be "unique capabilities". > > It is old, obsolete, and slow. If you can get someone to give you maybe $50 > for it, you can consider yourself extremely lucky. > > If you want to stick with a sparc based system, forget the workstation class > hardware and get yourself a V240. Otherwise, any intel or AMD based server > will do. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_New_User_FAQ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
