What a deal... $3800 for a brand new SunBlade 100 with all the bells and whistles. Actually came loaded with Solaris 8(!) -> Had to argue with SUN for a month to get a stinkin "9" CD (Gosh thanks McNealy, hope the 3800.00 covers your CD costs). Entire day spent just loading Solaris 9... looks better, but is just as "useless" (UNIX with a GUI -zzzzzzzz), and the piece of junk reboots on its own now.
Let's see, Linux is so very hot - who makes it for SPARC? Out of hundreds of distro's - Only Debian (thank you)... I actually sent money for the disk set and waited three weeks. It's always good to support development, yes? Well folks.... too bad I cannot load Debian. From the support site's "SunBlade 100" string it appears that I should remove my video card (ROTFLMAO), and type mystical undocumented commands at the SILO prompt while praying. Outcome? The new CD's are in the trash, the nice $$$ SUN monitor is now hooked to my reliable W2K Adv Server box, and the SunBlade is great for holding up the monitor. Sorry Linux geeks... I give up. Guess my job? Yup, UNIX sysadmin UNIX for Services Windows for Productivity Linux for Geeks __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
