Re: sun sparc station 5

2002-03-12 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
What to be done? Well, it depends on what you need. Personally, I would enjoy trying to build a cluster with them and use it for statistical analysis =) -Manuel. Thierry ITTY wrote: > I have the opportunity to be given some sun sparc station 5 > > I know it is possible to run linu

Re: sun sparc station 5

2002-03-12 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
Hi Thierry, On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:22:28PM +, Thierry ITTY wrote: > I have the opportunity to be given some sun sparc station 5 > > I know it is possible to run linux on them, it might be interesting > on the other hand, I've been told those machines compare to Pentium

Re: sun sparc station 5

2002-03-12 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 3/12/2002 02:22 PM +, you wrote: >I know it is possible to run linux on them, it might be interesting I run Red Hat 6.2 with all patches on several Sun SparcStation 5's, ranging from 70MHz to 110MHz and all with only 32MB of RAM and 1GB of disk. Each one is a DNS server, mail server, and

RE: sun sparc station 5

2002-03-12 Thread Jan . Albrecht
From: Thierry ITTY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:22 PM > > I know it is possible to run linux on them, it might be interesting Yes it is, I have here a Sun Ultra 5 Running SuSE 7.3 Sparc > on the other hand, I've been told those machines compare to > Pentium 75 or

sun sparc station 5

2002-03-12 Thread Thierry ITTY
I have the opportunity to be given some sun sparc station 5 I know it is possible to run linux on them, it might be interesting on the other hand, I've been told those machines compare to Pentium 75 or 90 so the question is : is it worst installing linux on them, as servers ? as worksta