What Kind Of Machine ??

[Novice11]

Hello experts !! Getting into the field of Unix for the 1st time, am looking for machine, simply to load up Sun Solaris and practice commands. What kind of minimal specs. should I be looking for if i'm planning to purchase to PC just for that purpose ?? Any other solid advice ?? Thanks

 

[lfoata]

Maybe you can look on e-bay for a cheap used Ultra 5.
It will be cheaper than a new PC and closer to reality.

 

[StevieW85]

For playing, the machine doesn't have to be that powerful. I too would recommend a used machine, but I think you could pick up an adequate Intel box even cheaper than the Sun. As for reality, you can get pretty close with a PC.

I had Solaris 7 running on an old Dec 386 box with about 32MB and a tiny (200MB?) hard drive. It was adequate to play around with, but I wouldn't recommend it. (Especially since the video card wasn't supported and I had to use VGA default.)

My current low end machine is a newer, but still old Dec Pentium Pro machine (180 or 200 MHz). It's got 80MB and 2 hard drives of about 800MB total. It's occcasionally slow, but it's more than adequate for learning Unix.

- Steve StevieW85@go.com

 

[jad]

we've found a supplier of 2nd hand PC's 166Mhz Pentiums for 60 pounds, that run solaris brilliantly. I wouldn't recomend less than about 700Mb disk though, more fun if you can get the graphics and extras on the machine.

 

[trunix]

Take a look at Suns Hardware compatability list for solaris at :-

http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/hcl/index.html#S8

 

[MikeLacey]

jad - email me please, £60..... Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
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[rycamor]

I know someone who has a few old SunSPARC stations sitting around, which you can probably get for almost nothing. ($100, $50) Let me know if you are interested.

 

[MikeLacey]

they'd be in the US? the shipping would probably make that a bit less attractive..... Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
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[rycamor]

Yes, they are in the US. South Florida, to be exact. I didn't know where we were talking about. Anyways, I am not even sure my friend is looking to unload these stations, but if you want, I will ask.