HP-UNIX?

[Mick Ohrberg]

Mark,

I definitely second the 'niceness' of the Blade 100. I got some extra 
memory for it (I'm now at 640MB), and it takes regular PC-133 ECC SDRAM. 
Basically, the Blade 100 (and also the Netra X1, the Ultra 5/10) are PC's 
with SPARC chips - all IDE machines. Solaris 8, KDE 2.1.1 (Gnome 1.4 has 
proven far too unreliable - sawfish would die frequently and 
unexpectedly). I jam MP3's all day with XMMS :) The only 'bad' thing about 
the Blade 100's (which is also what makes it cheap) is the fact that it 
has an UltraSparc IIe chip instead of the faster IIi (256kB on-chip cache 
instead of 2MB cache). I can't wait until we can start getting the 900MHz 
UltraSparc III chips... (They are available - I meant budget wise :) )

When on the subject of 64-bit OS's. I've discovered that some of the 
precompiled 64-bit packages aren't working right. ftp.patriots.net 
completely stopped supporting 64-bit packages.

I'd LOVE to install a newer Linux release on my Blade. What is the latest 
version of Linux (any release) for SPARC? I know RedHat doesn't have one 
since 6.2 I believe.

	/Mick

On Wednesday 16 January 2002 09:25, MBSmith at dstsystems.com wrote:
> I read yesterday that Sun is getting together with representatives from
> the "user community" - apparently the outcry has been much more than
> they expected.  A Sun exec was quoted as not ruling out Solaris 9 on x86
> at some stage.
>
> Re the sparc box you referred to, I have a SunBlade 100 as my desktop
> machine and it is very nice.  I have KDE running with the usual fancy
> desktop stuff, I just need to remember I'm running Solaris and not
> Linux....
>
> Cheers
> Mark Smith
>
>
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>
> "Lance Feagan" <lfeagan at ku.edu>
> Sent by: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> 01/16/2002 02:54 AM
>
>
>         To:     "KC Linux User Group" <kclug at kclug.org>
>         cc:
>         Subject:        RE: HP-UNIX?
>
>
> As an interesting side note, I am sure most of you noticed that Sun just
> announced that they were stopping development of solaris x86.  This is
> news,
> and yet it is not.  They haven't done anything worthwhile in upgrading
> it for years.  So, I guess all you solaris on x86 ppl with be forever
> stuck in
> the past so to speak.  With the price of a nice little solaris on sparc
> box
> from sun these days, having a nice 64-bit machine really is quite
> affordable
> anyways.  [I consider under 1k quite cheap]
>
> --Lance
>
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-- 
In the morning, you don't know what's going to happen;
during the day, you don't know what's happening;
at the end of the day, you have no idea what happened.

	Mick Ohrberg
	micke at kc.rr.com