[Aurora-sparc-user] What does your Sparc do?

[Joacim Melin]

I think the SS5 is pretty conservative when it comes to power  
consumption.  It runs pretty cool too, which is a big plus in my book.


On 19 jul 2007, at 15.03, Earl Shannon wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions. It's just that I really don't need the
> box.  They do cost money to keep on and since this is in my
> home.....
>
> Regards,
> Earl Shannon
>
> Joacim Melin wrote:
>
>> I'll second that. OpenBSD runs very nicely on that box.  I used to
>> run DNS, Apache and Postfix on a SS5/170 and it worked like a dream.
>>
>> On 18 jul 2007, at 17.19, T. Ribbrock wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:40:31AM -0500, Earl Shannon wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've two ultra5's and an ultra10. The sparc 5 I have I'm getting
>>>> ready
>>>> to trash. Since it had the 170 Mhz upgrade its just too much of a
>>>> pain
>>>> to get linux installed and I don't want to run Solaris at home.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You could try OpenBSD - I used to run a SS5/170 as firewall in the
>>> late OpenBSD 2.x/early OpenBSD 3.x era and that worked very nicely.
>>>
>>> Cheerio,
>>>
>>> Thomas
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