Semi IT : Sparc Box - Somewhat old

[Tom Buskey]

On 1/30/06, Jeffrey Creem <jeff at thecreems.com> wrote:
>
> I've got an Ultra 1 (ultasparc processor - sbus) box that I am ready to
> retire.
> 128 Megs of RAM, CD Reader. 9 Gig internal SCSI drive With Sun Keyboard
> and Mouse (can use standard VGA monitor - I've got the adapter).
> (This is pizza box style). Boot Prom updated so it can run 64 bit
> solaris kernels.


Not that old.  I think Solaris 10 will run on it though it might be slow.


Obviously not a powerhouse but if someone is interested I'd try to bring
> it to the next Nashua meeting.
>
> I had been runing Solaris 8 on it but should work find with one of the
> various Sparc based linux distributions too.



I think FreeBSD and OpenBSD have been working on it.  NetBSD too.
Good luck finding a current linux distribution for Sparc.

Oh, there are also the various OpenSolaris based distributions.  One of them
used the Solaris kernel with Debian on top of it.



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