The Ivory Tower of Pure Thought

So I recently came into possession of this Sun Enterprise 420. This picture is not quite right that’s a SunFire 280, but the form factor is the same so it’ works. I initially began by trying out Solaris. It recently became open source, and so I figured I give it a shot. I used Solaris all through college, and became very familiar with it, and felt that it would run pretty nicely on this hard ware. The Box I have is a dual 450Mhz, with 2 gigs of RAM, and 2 18Gb SCSI drives. Not the fastest thing in the world, but frankly it’s 64Bit, and should run pretty well considering what it is. I downloaded Solaris from Sun, and got through the install. I began toying with it a little bit, and really it was just not very friendly I think they’ve changed a few things, or perhaps I’ve become rusty it’s hard to say exactly. So I decided to toy with something I have a little more experience with. I decided to try FreeBSD 6.0 for SPARC64. I started out by downloaded the release candidate, and burn it to a CD, and did the install. I then built mysql, then apache, then PHP, and finally eaccelerator, and got it all together and it’s now serving up the blog you’re currently reading. So my goal is to put a pretty heavy load on this machine to see what kind of mileage I get from it.

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