On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:42:48AM -0500, Mike Hicks wrote:
> Nate Sanders <nate at nerp.net> wrote:
> > 
> Whoops, this reply is a few days late..
> 
> I got a dual-processor SPARCServer 20 running Debian not too long ago.  It
> doesn't have the capability to boot from CD, but that's okay, since it's
> faster to use boot floppies and install over the network from a nearby
> host than to go off the single- or dual-speed drive that's already in it.
> 
> I will say that it is slow ;-)  It'd work for BitchX but I wouldn't try
> making it play MP3s (well, maybe the dual system could do it, but..)

He really shouldn't have any problem playing mp3s.  We've got a couple
of SS20s and a SS10 running Slowaris 7 here at work, and I've got
no problem running xmms on them.  If anything, they should be a little
quicker under Linux.

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