Looking sexy and taking up space
I recently started down the dark and lonley path of trying to get Gentoo loaded on my old Ultra that’s been sitting in the basement. More on that later, but for now let me share one link that I came across while doing some research. It’s called My Sun Ultra 5 And Me.
Quoth Tony:
A few weeks ago, I stubbed my toe on my old Sun Ultra 5 as it sat there lifeless and unused in my apartment. Once my primary desktop, the envy of my geek friends, and a way to woo the ladies, its glory days have long since passed. As much as I would like to let it live out its days looking sexy and taking up space, I live on the island of Manhattan, where space is a premium. Since I can’t charge it rent, I decided I’d better use it or lose it. But what to use it for?
That’s pretty much my problem as well. Even if I get it up and running, the IDE interface in it is so pitifully slow I’m not sure what it would be good for. Sure I could run my IRC sessions from it for bragging rights… but not much else. Please share any good ideas below.
PS. Yes, I already know… “boat anchor.” Har har har :)
December 28th, 2005 at 7:50 am
I think there are any number of uses. As you said, I would run my IRC sessions on it. Perhthinking aps a print server. Maybe as a an MP3 server (streaming music is not intensive). Backups could go to there. Plus I have this Sparc here that I am going to put gentoo on, and if you do it all first I can just cheat and ask you if I get stuck.
This is geek history we are talking about here. I would hold on to it and run if for no other reason than it was once a great and mighty warrior :)
December 28th, 2005 at 10:53 pm
I would definitely recommend Debian over Gentoo. It’s soooo much easier.