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[Sean]

Ill trade you my sparc 5 for your ultra 10 =) 

The biggest things that screws me up is the reversal of the control and
caps locks keys so I reversed my mac keyboard so it matches the 5c. 





On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Dpk wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:22:50AM -0500, Sean wrote:
> 
>    Hey don't knock Solaris. =) I actaully like the sun 5c keybaord
>    better than a lot of pc keyboards, although it takes a while to get
>    used to.  But the hardware knocks the crap out of the dimestore
>    stuff (all x86).
> 
> It's probably all personal taste, because I like my Sun "Type 6"
> keyboard on my Ultra 10.  I can type a lot faster using it (the kys
> are not so big and high like the PCs) and the location of "ESC", "~",
> and the "Control" keys makes programing a lot easier.
> 
> Sun is migrating to USB keyboards and mice so you can replace them
> if you own it (not a lab system!)
> 
> The sluggishness you observe is most likely due to the central account
> database used by the systems (NIS @ CSE or NIS+ @ EGR) and most file
> systems are NFS mounted.  I think you would find the same delays in a
> Linux system setup this way.
> 
> Not to praise Sun or Solaris since they do have their downfalls, but
> hopefully this sheds some light on the subject.
> 
> Dennis
>    
>    On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Jeremy Paul Bowers wrote:
>    
>    > Michael Malinak, you said. . .
>    > >Anyone use this?  It's Debian based, I know that much.  Rumor
>    > >has it that it's going to be installed in one of the CSE labs
>    > >here at
>    > 
>    > Whose rumor? While I'd appreciate having UNIX-running machines
>    > that are easier to use then those Solaris things (and I mean
>    > literally easier to use; I hate the keyboards, I hate the mice,
>    > and I'm not too fond of the slothfulness either), I find it hard
>    > to believe without some sort of substantiation.  Still... if they
>    > were to run Linux, Debian or some variant is probably what they'd
>    > run...
>    > 
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