SUN Ultra 30 workstation - help

[keith_henson]

Evening all,

Ive been deciding about shifting on to a server based network in my gaff, but want to move away from windows based stuff, to UBUNTU on the dual xeon server i have coming, but also ive been given an Ultra 30 to play with.

Now it comes with 3x 50gig drives in it, a shed load of memory - but i have never used solaris

What am i letting myself in for? and what sort of other hard ware can i stick in this thing to possibly give USB support?

Any help would be grand

Thanks

Keith

[fatlaz]

Is there some sort of translation book so we (well, I) know WTF you are on about old bean?

[P B]

Have a look at this site for an eBook that may help.

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It's for Solaris 9, but will give the basics.

Things that are new in 10 that are worth knowing about.

Zones and Containers. Kind of like VMWARE meets a chroot jail. Nice for trying stuff out in, without the overhead of multiple installations of Solaris.

ZFS. A huge leap forward in terms of filesystems over UFS. One to read up about.

Brendan Gregg's Homepage is a good jump off point for the above two.

Also Dtrace to find out what is happening is worth a look too.

If you end up liking Solaris, don't forget you can download it for the Intel box if you want.

Paul

[keith_henson]

Originally Posted by fatlaz

Is there some sort of translation book so we (well, I) know WTF you are on about old bean?

computers old bean, things that you spunk monkeys have no idea about

[howellsn]

Keith, the ultra 30's a little old in the tooth now - esp. if your considering solaris 10 on the thing.

In it's day a cracking little workstation though.

Personally i'd get a copy of solaris 8 (i have a copy i'd image for you).

IFAIC Solaris is really good - not cutting or bleeding edge like linux mind - but stable and dependable. with good support if you need it too.

you could if you wanted get a sparc version of linux or FreeBSD and install that on there too.

nick