[Gllug] Sun Sparc station 20

[Neil Levine]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:31:16AM +0100, Robert Wood a ecrit: 
> I have the chance on getting the following for like next to nothing, and
> I was wondering if this machine is any good as a linux box, and how easy
> is it gonna be to istall on, (i.e. hardware compatibility, etc)
> 
> I used to use the old sparc 5 boxes at university, and I liked them, but
> they were rather sluggish, is the sparc20 any better?

I am running Debian on a Sparc 5 as my main home machine. Yeah its not
a speed demon and the 8bit graphics card means you can kiss goodbye to
your fancy gradient menu bars in X...but its been ultra reliable and
runs everything that my i386 boxes can.

Neil

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