I probably should have stated the original purpose of my inquiry :)
My question was if I could still use my version of Solaris 9 for "home
hobby use"or if the new Oracle rules prevented me from it.
I have bought these machines to collect them and learn, so performance
is not paramount.
I had used OpenIndiana virtualized in VBox and loved it. Mac was really
starting to piss me off (even worse now), so I set out to learn more
about what was constantly presented as the best in the business.
I thought that for about 100€ getting the chance to learn what it was
like to use Solaris 9 on Sun hardware was a pretty good deal.
Now, better specs:
- The E250 has 6 18GB SCSI disks and 1.5GB Ram. I originally tried it on
Debian, hated the front panel lights going everywhere. Installed Solaris
9 and am very happy with it. Remote desktop is OK with XNest, save for a
weird yellow color of some elements drawn onscreen. It also serves NFS
pretty well, which helps me get stuff over to the Ultra 5 in a
metaphorical snap.
- The Ultra5 has 2 Atlas 10K II 9Gb Disks with the Symbios dual channel
PCI SCSI (best upgrade I ever did!), one with swap and /export/home and
the other with /. Unfortunately, 128MB RAM is all I have for it right
now, but it hardly gets used, so there's little swapping ;). Also
running Solaris 9. SunFreeware has been very useful. StarOffice is
installed. Biggest gripe is the frickin' Optical Mouse that needs the
special pad. I printed it on transparent plastic and put a mirror under
it. Barely works, but gets me by.
I thank you all for your answers and for the link to OSol SPARC! Went
crazy trying to find it!
Bryan
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