It definitely depends on price. A sparc 20 isn't even a match for most Pentium IIIs running just about any flavor of UNIX or LINUX.
Not to mention, hardware is proprietary (uses S-bus not PCI bus), a special keyboard is needed, and monitor, unless you get a converter. If your not going to use Solaris, I don't see much a point in spending the cash on a Sparc when a PC running LINUX is cheaper and easier to deal with. -bryan PS> Don't get me wrong, I love Sun Sparcs, but I love them running Solaris, and Solaris applications. On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 06:39 PM, david wrote: > Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > >> Sorry to pose a slightly off-topic question... >> >> A colleague has a Sun Sparcstation 20 for sale. He says it will run >> linux. >> I was thinking it might be a good project machine for running an >> Apache >> server, trying out some cgi scripts, Perl, etc. >> >> Any opinions on whether this might be suitable? (ducking and >> promising >> never to ask another hardware question here again). >> >> -Kevin > > ask him how much and if it's reasonable to you. buy it and use it. i > had one > when i was in school. my professor gave it to me but i don't know how > much > those machine cause nowaday. it came with Solaris. i used it to run > Apache. > Perl, C++ etc and it runs great. when the machine finally ran out of > disk, > i gave up on it because i don't know how to change/upgrade to a > bigger/newer disk. i don't know much about the hardware side of the > machine. > > but if you just want to play with Linux,Apache,CGI,Perl etc, it should > have > no problem. > > david > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
