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Of the Love of Oldtimers - Dusting Off a Sun Fire V1280 Server

Posted by Unknown on from the mine-bitcoins-while-heating-your-home dept.

vikingpower writes "Today, I decided to acquire a refurbished Sun Fire V1280 server, with 8 CPUs. The machine will soon or may already belong to a certain history of computing. This project is not about high-performance computing, much more about lovingly dusting off and maintaining a piece of hardware considered quirky by 2013 standards. And Now the question creeps to mind: what software would Slashdotters run on such a beast, once it is upgraded to 12 procs and, say, 24 GiB of RAM ?"

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  1. Free software. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Many free software projects are not regularly tested on anything other than x86.
    Make your system available for free software developers and you will be sure to have
    the loag average of 30 or more. Ghostscript project, for instance, would greatly benefit
    from testing on minority platforms.