[TriLUG] Stupid question time - Serial terminal and Linux

[Magnus Hedemark]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Kevin Flanagan wrote:

> That would be me, I have an Sparc Ultra1, with CD and Floppy, but no Sun
> ~  video, keyboard, or mouse.

Kevin, I have your machine's five brothers from the swap you did to get 
that box.  Ultra 1 is another easily overlooked model of Sun that you can 
get great bargains for.  People always look out for the more expandable 
boxes like the Ultra 2's or SS20's but when you look at the price of extra 
processors for these boxes it's obscene.  You can get a pile of Ultra 1 
machines for what it would cost to build an Ultra 2 out with dual procs.

> I'm currently debating what distro to install, most aren't very current
> unless you go over to one of the BSD varieties.  Suggestions?

OpenBSD has been very good to me on sparc machines.  But for Linux I like 
Aurora.  We are ever so close to having Fedora Core on sparc, by the way.  
Debian is said to work well on Sparc, but I've tried it a couple of times 
and left wondering what all the excitement is about.