[ug-bosug] [Semi-OT] Sun Ultra 10 and OpenSolaris

[Moinak Ghosh]

Pradhap Devarajan wrote:
> Looking at the specs of the machine,  AFAIK to build entire ON source 
> on this box would take hours :) .... If you have patience kick of 
> build by evening (nightly ;) )  and by next day the build should be 
> over ...  :)

   It will take 12-15 hours for a full nightly on a U10. One can
   of course tweak the nightly options to reduce that. Like do
   not build BFU archives and do not do a make lint.

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> ~ Pradhap.D
>
> Manish Chakravarty wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have gotten hold of two old sun ultra 10's
>> They're just lying around without monitors/keyboards and no one uses 
>> them.
>>
>>
>> I've always wanted to fiddle around with SPARC boxes. (Never used them
>> before)
>>
>> My questions are :
>>
>> 1) How would their performance be as compared to x86 boxes?
>> 2) Would they have enough horsepower to run a recent OpenSolaris build?
>> Or am i better or running Solaris 10? or linux?
>> 3) Where do i get keyboards/mice for the machines. Searched in ebay.in ,
>> but could not find much
>>
>>
>> This mail might make it look as if i stole those boxes :)
>> They're just lying around in office, unused, and i want to make good use
>> of them.
>>
>> BTW, can they be used to run builds and stuff now?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Manish
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