[Suns-at-Home] Solaris 10/JDS on U10/5

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>From: "Lewis, Benjamin (Ben)" <blewis3@lucent.com>
>Date: 2006/09/18 Mon AM 04:07:44 CDT
>To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com
>Subject: RE: [Suns-at-Home] Solaris 10/JDS on U10/5

>>I was wondering what experiences people have had with Solaris 10 and in
>addition, Solaris 10 while running the Java Desktop System on the Ultra
>10 (and Ultra 5 for that matter).
>
>Hello Eric
>
>I've been running Solaris 10 on an Ultra 5 for a while. I moved from 9
>specifically for the Java Desktop but I found it to be barely useable
>even with 1Gb of RAM. The graphics are great and you've got all the
>widgets that should be in a modern GUI (easy desktop shortcuts etc) but
>it's treacly slow on the Ultra 5.
>
>I've gone back to CDE. That makes it a great little machine and chugs
>away running all the stuff I use at work.

Well, there are many variables in an Ultra 5 and 10 to consider:

 - Disk Drive interface (built-in IDE B-L-O-W-S - instead consider adding a supported SCSI controller and SCSI drive)
 - amount of RAM (1 Gig is good, more is not supported)
 - Size of Cache for CPU (some CPUs have 2 Meg of  Cache, look for one of those)
 - Speed of CPU (440 MHz is top speed for one of these boxes)
 - Graphics card (aka framebuffer - there are different on-board graphics options, and the Ultra 10 supports a "vertical" UPA framebuffer like a Creator or an Elite)

I've run the Java Desktop on an IDE-based 440 MHz Ultra 10 with on-board (Series 3) graphics and 1 Gig of RAM, and one the machine was up and running, it was a workable soulution. The CPU/Cache/RAM made up (in some small way) for the deficient Framebuffer and disk sub-system...

Of course, YMMV - what is your Ultra 10 configured with?

Ken