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Re: [PLUG] Buying a Sparc
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Well Sun bought Cobalt so they do have a hacked up redhat distro in house
now and presumably the talent associated with Cobalt(which isn't much from
what I've seen and dealt with imoho) It wouldn't be that far fetched to
think they might promote their own linux distro for LOW end... and I'm sure
they will stress the LOW end part to no end...
N-Tropy
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Naresh Reddy wrote:
> Sounds good. I like the Blade 100 for $995. And the Netra X1 for $995 is
> great too. Are there any Sun dealers around the Philly area? BTW I think
> Sun is taking off Solaris on Intel(32) is because they are comming out
> with a linux dist (which is stupid of them).
>
> Thanks
> Naresh
>
>
> -----------------------------------
> Naresh Reddy
> nyg102@psu.edu
> http://www.personal.psu.edu/nyg102
> -----------------------------------
>
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Jason Costomiris wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:28:21PM -0400, Naresh Reddy wrote:
> > : I am planning to buy a Sparc machine to run Solaris. Can I get a
> > : suggestion? I don't want to spend too money, just for learning purposes,
> > : and maybe use it as a server.
> >
> > Workstation class? Blade 100 - $995 for:
> > Ultra IIe/500 CPU
> > 128MB RAM (uses standard PC133 RAM)
> > 20G IDE Drive
> > 48x CD
> > 10/100 Ethernet
> > PGX64 Graphics Accelerator
> > Floppy
> > Smartcard reader
> > Solaris 8 preloaded
> >
> > Servers? Netra X1 - $995 for:
> > Ultra IIe/500
> > 128MB RAM (uses standard PC133 RAM)
> > 40G IDE Drive
> > Dual 10/100 Ethernet
> > 2 RS-232 Serial
> > 2 USB 1.0 ports
> > 1 RU chassis
> > Solaris 8 preloaded
> >
> > Those are both brand new, direct from Sun.
> >
> > --
> > Jason Costomiris <>< | Technologist, geek, human.
> > jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
> > Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
> > My account, My opinions.
> >
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