Debian on Ultrasparc 1/170E
Hi all. I'm new to the list.
I have a Sun Ultra 1/170E that I got quite inexpensively a few weeks ago.
It has 640 MB of RAM and about 4 gigabytes of disk space. I've installed
Debian etch on it without a GUI and it's working quite well.
Given the amount of RAM in it, I'm wondering if this would make a viable
workstation rather than a CLI-based server. I don't have a monitor,
keyboard or mouse for it but have a couple of NEC MultiSyncs that I could
adapt to it easily enough, and I understand a Type 5 keyboard and mouse
won't cost too much.
If it'll be fast enough and usable with Gnome or KDE, I think it would be a
fun box to use that way. (My primary desktop is a PIII-450 with 768 MB RAM,
and I think Ubuntu runs quite respectably on it [I couldn't get Debian to
properly recognize my video card]... and I have Gnome on a PII-400 with 384
MB and find it to be very usable.) (I have a really good laptop, so no need
to take a collection for me.)
Thanks in advance.
Jim
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