Unix Box ADVICE!

Penguin_Feliac · Jan 28, 2003

Where can i find good prices on a unix box. I know that i can run Linux on any machine nowadays that i would like, but I still would like to have a unix box. Any advice?

Titan386 · Jan 28, 2003

There were a bunch of old Sun systems on ebay a while ago, there probably still are some.

As far as buying a new Unix box, I suppose you could get one from Sun, but thats probably not the best deal.

Penguin_Feliac · Jan 28, 2003

Ok, ill Check out Ebay. Thanx!

Christoph · Jan 28, 2003

The cheapest way to get a Unix box would be to download and install (Free|Open|Net)BSD, which are all true unices.

Richard · Jan 28, 2003

Yep. For what its worth, FreeBSD is quite nice. There are certainly some advantages to running a BSD server, but for the desktop I have to give it a thumbs down. While it has good support it isn't as good as Linux's.

Arkaine23 · Jan 28, 2003

BSD

Those old emachines with celerons/P3's may be about the crappiest computers when running windows, but with free or open BSD they're great.

su root · Jan 28, 2003

I agree. There is a good amount of following for FreeBSD, which means lots of support. They have great documentation and an excellent ports tree.

It's available for i386, so you can run it on your Intel or AMD desktops, they don't require a special server. Upgrades for i386 are alot cheaper to find than upgrades for a Sun box.

http://www.freebsd.org/

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