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Building an el-cheapo Solaris Workstation

Wednesday, August 29. 2007

Perhaps this arcticle at ExtremeTech is quite useful to you: Build a (Very) Inexpensive Solaris 10 Workstation. Even more interesting than the article itself is the fact, that articles regarding Solaris starts to get more common. Looks like Solaris x86 gets a real factor even outside of enterprises.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 06:06 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Ahem.
I thought it was about a "Workstation" (jokes about "A bus station is where a bus stops, a train-station is where a train stops, a workstation..." aside).
Instead, I read "mini ITX", "Celeron", "SiS".
Bah!

I found a Dell Inspiron 521 (DC-Athlon 5000) that some dealer was selling on ebay with a better graphics-card (GF-7300), so I could use it on my 24' Dell.
I added the recommended Dlink wireless card and 2 additional GBs of RAM and had a decent Solaris Workstation that is actually fun to use and silent enough so that it doesn't drive you crazy.
Install of SXDE went to smooth it was actually frightening.

Rainer

#1 Rainer on 2007-08-31 01:03 (Reply)

I posted it not because of the technical point, it´s the fact that such articles starts to appears that is more interesting.

SXDE easy to install? You´ve ain´t seen nothing ... SXCE b70 with the "Dwarf Caiman" installer ... that really smooth

even with a automatic live upgrade partition when you have enough HD.

#1.1 Joerg (Homepage) on 2007-09-01 12:59 (Reply)

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