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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: KernelPanic on 21 July 2002, 20:41

Title: How will this perform?
Post by: KernelPanic on 21 July 2002, 20:41

How will a 50MHz, 128MB ram Sun Sparc 20 perform? I know 'how will it perform?' is very vague, but will it be a dog or Ok. Also which version of Solaris would be best for it or would Linux be better?

Title: How will this perform?
Post by: choasmaster on 21 July 2002, 20:50

linux would probably run better on it. and where the hell did you get that , i wish that i had one of those. and solarise's might not be the best option, maybe a copy of sun os would i don't know

Title: How will this perform?
Post by: KernelPanic on 21 July 2002, 22:26

I havn't got it yet, I am jsut considering whether i will get it. I will get one from ebay if i decide to actually get one.

Title: How will this perform?
Post by: voidmain on 21 July 2002, 23:20

Is it a dual processor?  I used to install Debian on our old Sparc 20 dual processor boxes and make Apache/PHP servers out of them.  They are certainly a dog next to an Enterprise 4000/4500 or 10k but they make good web/mail/etc servers. I was running Solaris 2.5.1 on the ones I still ran Solaris on although newer versions should work.  I personally like Linux *much* more than Solaris.  But on the bigger multi/many processor systems Solaris will run circles around Linux.