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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Gary Nichols wrote: |
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> Blade 100: Nice to look at, but case is VERY flimsy. Power supply |
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> is LOUD. All USB peripherals. Onboard gfx suck. You can barely |
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> squeeze a SCSI card/drive into the case. Case fan is loud. Good |
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> luck trying to get anything but Solaris to work as a workstation |
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> with this thing - especially if you are using an Elite3d card. |
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> *puke* Gentoo works on every machine I have BUT this machine. |
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> Decent as a workstation if you're running Solaris or basic server |
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> functions. No idea why these things are still going for $300 a pop |
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> on ePay. Buy a U2 instead. I run Solaris on this box. |
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I've never tried using my Blade 100 as a workstation, but it has |
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worked fine for the past 12 months as a headless Gentoo server. I get |
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decent (though certainly not stellar) performance with Apache, MySQL, |
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Sendmail with milter-spamc and clamav-milter, and Dovecot. |
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Other options, if you want to avoid Solaris, are Debian and OpenBSD, |
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both of which I've run (headless only) on my Blade in the past. |
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Misc: |
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1. I've had reasonable luck using a USB CD writer; |
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2. a standard Intel EEPro 100 PCI card works fine as second NIC; |
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3. wish I could find some use for the SmartCard reader; |
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4. the internal clock is wonky, making ntp struggle; |
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5. haven't tried the IEEE 1394 controller at all; |
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6. good luck getting decent entropy on a headless sparc; |
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7. the sungem module that ships with the 2.4.x kernels is limited to |
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100 Mbps, though the card is supposedly capable of 1000 Mbps. |
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Gary's right about the noise. It's the loudest box I own, though in my |
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case I find that the hard drive is the culprit, not the case fan. |
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-- Paul Heinlein <heinlein@××××××.com> |
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