As promised something else a bit different - My Solaris 10 desktop from my Sun Ultra 5

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For those people that like to use free software you can download Solaris 10 for the PC for free from www.sun.com. It comes with bundled with Star Office 7.

Solaris isn't Linux but a full featured version of Unix with a desktop based around Gnome.

Ah so its sun as in the "sun java" people?

Didnt know they were so involved in unix, i kind of thought java was not the best basis for an OS because there a lot of Java based worms and stuff out there.
Im guessing it must be pretty secure though as its unix.

Sun Microsystems, the java people have been making Unix based workstations since computers since 1982. They are the sort of machines you would find in University's or large companies for doing research. In addition to this they also make Unix based enterprise and web-servers. Java is just a spin off from the building and supplying of machines. More recently they have become big in the open source world and the core code of open office comes from Star Office developed by Sun. For a number of years it has been offering their Solaris Operating system in x86 port for PC users.

Give you an idea of cost the list price of mine when it was new but it would have been about £3,500. It was the top of the range model of the Ultra 5 series of machines and one of the last produced. It even has a AMD coprocessor card that allows it to run windows 2000 in a window on the screen.

I got from ebay for next to nothing, upgraded the hard disk and installed the latest operating system. It is still a capable machine and great for internet use despite it relatively slow processor compared to a new PC's. One good thing is the 400MHz processor is 64-bit which speeds it all up and the kennel of the operating system has the fastest TCP/IP stack of ant operating system.

A new one, i am addicted to making them at the moment =]

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Thats from the film Dreamgirls isnt it?:spin2:

LOL Yes.
Great wallpaper btw.

Mines my avvie but I'm changing it now to a pic of TT hugging! :lovedup:

Mine now:

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/9...ktoprl7.th.jpg

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Ive had this one for ages, i'll probably change it tomorrow (:

My desktop is the man himself

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Another screen shot from one of my many vintage computers. This time a dual processor Sun Ultra 60 creator 3D running Sun Solaris 10.

:bored:

I swear this house will be run by computers soon..... then there will be no need for me :sad:

I have a crappy desktop, it's of a baby kangaroo from when we went to a zoo in West Wales. My stupid little brother won't let me change it.:sad:

Just change it when his not looking!

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My latest Mac desktop. I have hidden the dock so you can see the whole thing. :thumbs:

Heres mine, its a wrestling theme.
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http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...eartattack.jpg
:lovedup:

I only just saw this! Cheek of ya! :tongue: Its very true though :whistle:

Heres mine.

The sexy Lucy Pinder.

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7056/lucyto3.th.png

Just found out the 30 pound computer (including postage and packing) that produced the screen shot above cost $18,500 plus when new. That's a loss of about $18,440 in five years.

Moral of the story don't by a UNIX workstation new.... wait until the price drops.

Another screen shot of the SUN Ultra 60. This time it is running Solaris 8 and Microsoft Windows 2000 is nicely contained in a window.

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This is possible because the SUN Ultra 60 has inside it a a PC on a plug in card that shares the display, hard disk, keyboard and mouse with the SUN.

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

You see what i have to live with :rolleyes::laugh:

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...iencewith2.jpg

:lovedup:

This is Big Brother like you have never seen it before.

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This is how the web looked years ago