Rescuing Collectible Sun Equipment with Debian Linux
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| A while back, we bought a Sun Ultra 5 workstation with a winning bid of about
| $20.00 or so. It has a 360 MHz SPARC processor, 128 Meg of RAM, and an eight
| gigabyte harddrive. Most computers from Ebay are sold without operating
| systems, and this machine was no exception. Installing an operating system on
| Sun equipment isn't hard, once you know how to do it.
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http://beginlinux.com/index.php/server_training/serv_admin_m/subnets_ipcalc/0/800
Related:
Supporting The Latest and Greatest; Supporting the Oldest and Slowest
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| Kudos to the developers at Vector Linux for scaling down as well as scaling
| up. There’s nothing more friendly to the environment or the budget than
| keeping an old system going rather than building or buying a new one. So long
| as a computer can do what you need it to do it’s not obsolete. I’ll be
| following up my AliXe review with reviews of other lightweight and small
| footprint Linux distributions, including Vector Linux Light when it’s
| released.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2008/01/supporting_the_latest_and_grea.html
Impossible thing #1: Developing efficient, well engineered free software like
Debian GNU/Linux
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| So, not only does free software represent a vast amount of effort, but it is
| apparently very well-engineered and efficient effort leading to an even
| higher use value than equivalent proprietary products! Not only can free
| software manage large, complex projects, but it appears to do it better than
| proprietary methods.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/Impossible_thing_1_developing_efficient_free_software_like_gnu_debian
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