[tech] Red is working!

[David Gow]

It's true*! The SunBlade we've had sitting in the corner of the clubroom 
actually works**! It's not currently set up to auth with LDAP --- because 
that is a very special world of pain --- but you can now log in with 
username 'ucc' and password 'ucc'.

It's running Solaris, and has a whole host of useful*** programs 
installed, including a version of firefox which is less out-of-date than 
the version number would make you believe, and ssh so you can log in to a 
real server. It even has ipv6!

OpenGL should be working, and there are C/C++ compilers installed, so it 
should be possible to have some fun with the somewhat awesome graphics 
cards found within. Red also has 8 Gigs of RAM****, so should be good fun 
to play with. A port of OpenArena shouldn't be too hard, either. It 
already has a SPARC linux port.

Note that (due to the lack of any meaningful security), /away is not 
mounted, so you'll have to be a bit more creative to get to your files.

If someone decides to get LDAP et al working: "Good Luck!"
There's a guide to reinstalling Solaris in /home/wheel/docs/TheRedGuide 
for when you break it.

Have fun,

-- David Gow [SLX]
UCC Vice President / 'wheel' member

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*    For some definition of true.
**   For some definition of works.
***  For some definition of useful.
**** For some definition of RAM.