Re: US5 OS Choice

Hi,

Tom Doherty wrote:
Hi Guys,
I recently aquired a Sun Ultra Sparc 5 270MHz with 128M RAM with the intention of familiarizing myself with Solaris. Please could you advise on which version will run best on this old hardware allowing me to learn at more than a snails pace.
Regards

Tom

Solaris 10 or Solaris Express BUT I would recommend a brand new 120GB IDe drive(the original 4-8 GB are terrible slow which will hurt swapping and more) and try add 256 or 512MB RAM!

/michael
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