A while ago, too long ago, @kewldude007 dropped me some Sun Microsystems sunblade 2500 workstations. I’ve had ideas come and go, thought of just selling them, but there HAS to be somethitg I can do with them. Right?
They’re sparc, big, and a little obnoxious. From about 2003 and they were used for cad I believe? I have a 2004 copy of solaris, but I’d like to do something newer I think. I just don’t know what to do with them.
Give me ideas! I have felt bad for not doing more with these for a post and a video, but I have time now that its cold.
Yeah, idk, the specs are in the same ballpark as a Raspberry Pi 3… and sparc is going to limit what you can do with them.
Unless you have a really specific hobby/project in mind based on sparc and solaris, then I’d break them down and see if someone will give you $$ for scrap.
Probably not CentOS since they’re SPARC. Pretty sure CentOS only supports x86_64. You’d have better luck with a BSD, they seem to have a hard time killing it off.
I watched a talk about OpenBSD once where the speaker mentioned how they encourage people to port it to obsolete or obscure hardware because it turned out to be an efficient way to discover bugs…
If I had to use that hardware for something, I’d use it to play with pf and relayd in OpenBSD.
Right so theres 2 models, actually 4, of the 2500. Single and dual varients of 1.28GHZ and 1.67GHZ. So I have the duals, which for 1.28 looks like they were around 1100 new, and the 1.6 is… 1600 some dollars, how ironic. They aparently sell for anywhere between 400 and 800 on ebay.
Seems depending on how much ram and how many drives and what size they got over 2000 easy.
