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post #1 of 32
8/29/05 at 3:37am
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I would like to get a 64bit Linux/UNIX flavor, but obviously not the Sun machine. I'd take one, but that price must be for NASA or something.


Sun Ultra3 Mobile Workstation
64-Bit UltraSPARC IIIi Processor @ 1.2 GHz
17" LCD
Memory 2GB
Solaris 8,10, or Linux

there's a Dual CPU option too all for a nice $15,495. price tag.
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post #2 of 32
8/29/05 at 9:48am
Er..

Any Turion or Mobile Athlon 54 should work by that statement, though the accessories on the laptop could gie you some problems maybe.

A Little more specific might help on what you are looking for?

Seablade
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post #3 of 32
8/29/05 at 3:45pm
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Something with good graphics, a 17" lcd, a keypad, and an AMD 64.

Sorta like this but with an AMD instead of Intel would be close to perfect.

http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2540.html

I really want to study Solaris 10, and I need to photoshop a lot. Maybe occasional games. I don't know yet if I want an extra drive for XP64 or a dual boot yet.

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post #4 of 32
8/29/05 at 5:11pm
I don't run linux, but I plan to either get a 2nd HD and install Ubuntu or just get Knoppix. I wish I knew people that wanted to mess around with Ubuntu, I ordered like 20cds and have no idea what to do with them.
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post #5 of 32
9/10/05 at 2:59pm
I've run Mandriva and FreeBSD 64-bit editions on my ASUS Z80k (aka A2K) without problems.
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post #6 of 32
9/10/05 at 3:43pm
If you really want Sparc hardware, run over to tadpole (www.tadpolecomputer.com). They have some sparc lappies that are on the same price level as x86 and they're a reputable reseller. I personally don't think you would benefit that much from an x86 64 with Solaris unless you get gobs of memory. If you have that kind of money to invest into a laptop with that much memory you'd be better off getting some real sparc hardware (yeah I've heard the arguments for sparc vs x86.. yeah yeah.. but I find that sparc hardware is almost 99.99% guaranteed to work with Solaris and they tend to be better made). But personally, I have the Sager 3880 that I triple boot off (Winblows XP (for Photoshop), FreeBSD, and Solaris 3/05 I think, don't remember). Still working out the kinks for Solaris on the lappie though. I'm still wondering why in the world Sun decided on their Java Desktop (just about as crappy as CDE), thing sucks doodoo. They should've built their Java Desktop on KDE instead of Gnome (hehehe, let's hear the flames.. I have a slight preference for KDE over Gnome as you can tell). But fluxbox rules them all!

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post #7 of 32
9/10/05 at 9:42pm

Two Linux Laptops here

Have an old IBM 1472 notebook with Slackware 8.0 on it. Was installed Spring 2001 if I remember correctly. Still quite zippy for a 366 MHz Celeron machine.

Currently using a triple boot Sager 9860: WinXP/Yoper Linux/Slackware 10.1 (the Slackware should be complete by tomorrow.) And yes, the dual 60 GB Hitachi PATA drives on that Promise 20378 SATA controller have been a _total_ pain in the butt as concerns getting them setup but they are really fast and reliable when working. Love this machine!

Not sure when Mr. Garzik's PATA code for the SATA controllers will make it into the stable kernel, but I hope soon: I'm still running the 2.6.10 kernel, oy. Haven't found a patch for the PATA/SATA driver for other kernels.

Commendations to the Yoper team: Their 2.2 pre-release was installed on this machine in January '05 and it has worked very good with only minor modifications to user-level software installations. Yoper!
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post #8 of 32
9/10/05 at 10:35pm
Ugh....Yoper was cool, but meh.

Vector linux is cool (based on slack) but i had issues getting it to work on my lappy

My favorite distro thus far is: Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 (yet to try the Breezy Preview)
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post #9 of 32
9/10/05 at 11:41pm
Have you ever thought about a Macintosh? The PowerBooks are only 32bit, but they have one of the most advanced Unix operating systems in the world on them.
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post #10 of 32
9/11/05 at 12:55am
Heh sorry I am a little late replaying again here

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Originally Posted by Cubensis
I don't run linux, but I plan to either get a 2nd HD and install Ubuntu or just get Knoppix. I wish I knew people that wanted to mess around with Ubuntu, I ordered like 20cds and have no idea what to do with them.
You are posting in the middle of a Linux forum, post your questions here and someone here can give them a shot. Thats kinda why we are here

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Originally Posted by Kakaze
Have you ever thought about a Macintosh? The PowerBooks are only 32bit, but they have one of the most advanced Unix operating systems in the world on them.
Well I Believe he wants to run 64 Bit, the exact reasoning I dont know and yes the Powerbooks are nice book by all means, I still prefer Linux though But at any rate he specificly mentioned studying Solaris which I dont believe runs on the PPC platform so that would kinda count that out until after the Mac switch to Intel at the earliest.

Anyways in as far as a good 64bit laptop... I am personally looking at a Turion based system, the Acer Ferrari 4005, which seems to be fairly promising, if you do a search on these forums youll find a fair amount about running linux on em. The one thing to make sure if you do a lot of Image Manipulation for larger images make sure you have plenty of memory(As I am sure you know). If you decide to run linux try out Gimp by the way, it is an alternative to photoshop and does a pretty good job, not quite as powerful but the closest thing out there and isnt to far off either, not to mention free.

Seablade
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post #11 of 32
9/12/05 at 1:05am
I know he wants to run 64 bit, but I figured I'd throw it out there anyway.
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post #12 of 32
9/18/05 at 2:24pm
all my laptops have got linux on as a primary OS and Windows on for visiting certain client sites.

I have an old tadpole sparc book which you can pickup very cheap now, and run various OS's on it.
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post #13 of 32
9/21/05 at 5:58pm
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/ -- A subset of the solaris source code that's freely downloadable, provided you can compile it and get it to run. I believe it will run on 64 bit, to tell yout he truth I dont know much about it, but its opensource unix. They also said that future versions of solaris will be based on this, much like fedora is the testing fround for RHCE.

Good luck with it.
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post #14 of 32
10/26/05 at 8:57pm
If you have the cash

http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/html/products/mobile/

be carefull a couple of them are 4+ inches thick
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post #15 of 32
10/26/05 at 9:03pm
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Originally Posted by gonzo
If you have the cash

http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/html/products/mobile/

be carefull a couple of them are 4+ inches thick

I don't see any prices... LOL
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post #16 of 32
10/26/05 at 9:13pm
Oops... looks lice they pulled them off the website. I just remember that 3 years ago they were about 5K
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post #17 of 32
10/26/05 at 10:35pm
what even happened to running Solaris X86, no Sparc required
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post #18 of 32
10/28/05 at 9:53pm
Solaris x86 is still quite viable, especially in Solaris 10. Oh, and Sol10 is now free as well. My HP notebook specified below has plans to be part Solaris 10, and I did run it briefly in 64-bit mode.

I strongly suggest staying away from a SPARC notebook. We had a couple at work, some of the most interesting lead weights on the planet, though they did in fact run Solaris/SPARC (after MUCH fighting with various drivers and special machinations which we were not happy about). However, it became easier to get something like an IBM notebook to run against a little 1U style SPARC (like the V210 today). Hell of a lot cheaper too.

If you're still needing a true SPARC notebook, Sun now sells their own apparently (maybe a rebrand), under the Ultra 3 line:

http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CESe...P&catid=132680

Warning, they range from $3.5K to $10K on that page.

Cheaper to get a second-hand SPARC desktop like the workhorse Ultra-2 (which I recommend highly, though its SBUS) from somewhere like eBay. If you want PCI, than look into second-hand Ultra 10. Ultra 5 should be ignored highly unless you're stripping for parts (most of the internals can be used on the 10).

Hope this helps,
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post #19 of 32
10/29/05 at 4:04pm
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Originally Posted by Kakaze
Have you ever thought about a Macintosh? The PowerBooks are only 32bit, but they have one of the most advanced Unix operating systems in the world on them.
The macontish is nothing but a bloated crap inside the GUI, for compiling anything or learning unix a MAC is not the way to goo...a mac is waste of the freeBSD core maybe they will change something when they release the new OS for macs based on intel procs
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post #20 of 32
10/29/05 at 5:18pm
Yes yes, you just keep thinking that.
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