[Aurora-sparc-user] Ultra 5 + Aurora Linux = WooHoo?

[Joacim Melin]

Allright. Thanks all for your feedback!

Does anyone have any opinions on power consumption, how hot it runs,  
etc?
I also have an Ultra 1 but I hesitated a bit over using it 24/7 at  
home because it eats up power like popcorn...


On 29 jan 2007, at 10.06, Joseph Simantov wrote:

> I've also had a rather positive experience using
> Aurora 1 and 2 on ultra5s, both in server and in
> desktop configurations.
>
> Probably the only negative point is the Ati Mach64
> graphic card; overall graphic quality is acceptable,
> but when working with dynamic drawings (3D), the card
> is AWFULLY slow compared with recent, equivalent PC
> graphic cards... And I am limiting my comparison to
> PCI/AGP cards...
>
> However, this problem appears also when running
> Solaris9 on these machines.
>
> BTW, does anybody know if graphic performance in
> Aurora can be improved by using a Raptor card?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joseph
>
>
>
>
>> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:54:38 +0100
>> Joacim Melin <listor at melin.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I got me a Ultra 5 for free. Haven't booted it yet
>> (still Solaris on
>>> the disk) but I'm playing with the idea of using
>> it for something
>>> interesting. Before I start the process of
>> installing Aurora, will
>>> it run properly on the Ultra 5, and is the
>> hardware itself any good?
>>
>
>
>
>
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