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Old 10th June 2008
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Originally Posted by roddierod View Post
I had a Ultra 10, they only seem to run well with Solaris, IMO. I did get a version of linux to work on it but I forget which. Couldn't get any *BSD to work on it.
Solaris *is* the better choice, but I have had FreeBSD 6.x on both an Ultra 5 and an "Ultra 1E+" (a 300MHz clone) working fine. I've never tried it on my 60. I found the implementation to be quirky -- some hardware ports did not work, and there is (or was) no Flash or Java (necessary for many things like electronic lab notebooks). Bacula did not work properly -- for some reason it would not address my SCSI tape drive properly in spite of the SCSI HDD working fine.

They are plenty good enough for simple file servers and infrastructure kinds of things. Nothing heavy, but plenty good enough. I think you will enjoy them.
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