It also Departs from some of the other standards.

IDE Drive / Cdrom
Sparc IIe chip
USB keyboard / mouse

I got mine, but will not be trying anything other thank Solaris until I get
my Certs.

Nice Heavy machine ( 2 or 3 lbs heavier than an ultra 5)

Brad Timm

-----Original Message-----
From: jethro at yaron.org [mailto:jethro at yaron.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 10:10 AM
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Sun Blade


  Hi,

Quoting Jason Jorgensen <jasonj at talkware.net>:

> The iso is older than Suse, I give ya that.  And since I havent used the
> Sparc distro in over 8 months I guess I really dont know first hand
anymore 
> of its being actively updated, but I would hope so.

Thing is, the Sunblade is pretty darn new. You need special install CDs to
put 
Solaris on it. It has no PS/2-style connectors - all USB. Has a smartcard
reader 
for some odd reason and firewire. 

-Yaron

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