Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:40:12 +0100 From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> To: "'mholloway@flashmail.com'" <mholloway@flashmail.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD questions'" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Alpha or Ultra 5? Message-ID: <DD2AB7991BC6D211988E00A024AC583B83EC02@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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Hi Mark, Why bother buying a Sparc to learn Solaris? Why not just purchase the x86 version of solaris and bung it on a cheap PC? (Actually, I think both Sparc and x86 versions come together). It's very cheap too if you only want the non commercial license. I believe you only pay for packaging and delivery (30-45 USD). I believe the x86 version is complete with CDE and everything else. It should be just like the Sparc version. Have a look at <http://www.sun.com/solaris/freesolaris.html>. Sparc's are very well made, and very desirable, but the graphics and CPU performance you get for the money are very poor compared to modern PC's. Just my 2p worth. Jeff Mark holloway wrote: >I almost made this a long, drawn email asking for advice. Then I erased = >it because I didn't want to be boring.. It was a long, drawn email, but not boring ;-) >Simply put, for the last 6 months I have been SUPER EXCITED to buy a Sun = >Ultra 5. For $2500, I can get an Ultra 5/270mhz/256k cache machine with = >64MB ram. I wanted it for the sake of learning Solaris and learning = >system administration tasks on the world's most popular commercial Unix. = > Then it hit me! After selling all my legacy equipment on ebay and = >having $2500 in cash sitting here in front of me, I DON'T WANT THE ULTRA = >5!=20 <SNIP> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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