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Valentine
Sun Ultra 5 running Debian GNU/Linux
Helping overcome the hardware/software monoculture.
portrait of valentine

Valentine is a 333 MHz Sun Ultra 5 workstation manufactured in 1999. She was purchased for a song on eBay, and upgraded with a used 40 GB hard drive and enough used memory to bring her up to 512 MB. She has been tested with various varieties of free software, including OpenBSD, Aurora GNU/Linux, Gentoo GNU/Linux, and Debian GNU/Linux. All of these are available to run on the 64-bit Sparc IIi processor, and all run very well. Debian has proven to be the easiest to manage, and so that has become the distribution of choice

One of the best features of Valentine is that she is not running an x86 family processor, and thus does not contribute to the susceptibility of the monoculture. Windows will never run on her. When she arrived here, she was running Solaris 7, but that was soon remedied.

In her previous existence, she apparently was an ad server, run in a spotlessly clean data center. It was very unusual to purchase a used computer which had not a single speck of dust inside. Her retirement to the desktop has been a well-deserved break. Valentine lives on my work desktop, and her twin brother Meteor lives in my home office.

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