24. Ressources.

The following sites are given for your information, I am independent from them and does not represent them. If you would like to suggest a website or to add any information do not hesitate to email me.

24.1 Information sites.

• Ace's Hardware: http://www.aceshardware.com/ An hardware information site having a SPARC area, actually the whole site used to run on a SparcStation 20 SM71, 128MB ! Ouaich, definitively not an Intel clone running Windows NTM.
• ArsTechnica: http://arstechnica.com/cpu/index.html ArsTechnica is an information website with a good CPU section.
• Black-Cube: http://www.black-cube.net/Sun/ Pictures of various SPARC hardware : IMHO great site.
• LinuxDoc: http://www.tldp.org homesite of the LDP.
• Obsolyte: http://www.obsolyte.com/sunPICS/ Nice pictures from various sun Hardware.
• SPARC International, Inc. http://www.sparc.org/ As the name implies, a lot of information about SPARC architecture.
• Sun: http://docs.sun.com/ the starting node to access documentation on Sun Microsystems website.
• Sun's Linux webpage.

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• SunHelp: http://sunhelp.org A good source of information about Sun Hardware and Solaris OS. Has a lot of links and good documentation on site.
• Just the Facts: http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Sun_Resources/Just_The_Facts/JTF.html plenty of "Just the facts" documents in .ps format.
• UltraLinux: http://www.ultralinux.org/ If you need information about the Linux Kernel on SPARC architecture it is a very good place: "Bring your penguin into the Sun".

24.2 Auction sites.

Among the various Auction websites available on the net you can try theses ones. Remember to be very cautious when you purchase hardware ( see the Buying a SPARC computer section. )

• Ebay: http://www.ebay.com Ebay, and its regional sites have got a lot of Computers.
• Yahoo! Auctions: http://auctions.yahoo.com/ This is the well known site.

24.3 A Good Provider based in France

There exists a very reliable source of used Sun workstations in France: solutions-rl

http://www.solutions-rl.fr