[rescue] Ultra 1 newbie q'ns

Magnus magnus at yonderway.com
Mon Dec 25 11:22:05 CST 2006


Steve Sandau wrote:

> One of my U1s is doing a great job of webserver/mail server running 
> OpenBSD. I have been very pleased with OBSD's performance on older 
> hardware of various types. including my SS5 and SS4 firewall/VPN boxes. 
> And now I have used OBSD for desktop usage (with XFCE) utilizing 
> packages and ports.


I concur; OpenBSD is an excellent choice for some of these machines. 
They still don't support multiprocessor on sparc architecture yet but 
for something like the Ultra 1 it should work just fine.

Though using the ports tree is an exercise for the extremely patient on 
these machines. :)



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