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"Michael Brown" <see@signature.below> writes:

>What's a "reasonable" OS for a Sun Ultra 2 with 2x300MHz US II's (2MB 
>cache), 512MB RAM (possibly 768MB), and a 73GB HDD (probably, though if the 
>machine doesn't like it I'm going to fall back to two 2.1GB HDDs)? It's 
>probably going to be doing a bit of everything; software development, small 
>DB server. Both local (Creator 3D + GDM-20E20) and remote use. It looks like 
>the main choices are Solaris 10, Linux, and the *BSD family. It looks like 
>Solaris is off the list if I can't get the 73GB drive working (5-7GB 
>required), but apart from that, which way would you guys recommend going?

If you need a lot of support for Sun-specific hardware devices, go with
Solaris. The Ultra-2's can take plenty of RAM and support the high-end 400+
MHz Ultrasparc-II CPU modules.

If you don't care much for having lots of generic device support, go with
something like NetBSD or Gentoo Linux. These two are about the best IMHO as
far as alternative OS's are concerned.

One thing to be aware of is that Sun will stop supporting Ultra 2's within a
year or so, and then the only choice will be an alternative OS if you want
to keep the operating system as up to date as possible.

Regards,

Craig.

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