Re: Sun hardware
* Dimitri Maziuk (dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu) spake thusly:
> * Paul DeHerrera (paul.deherrera@lsbc.com) spake thusly:
> > Will debian work on my Sun Enterprise 4500 server, which has 8 processors,
> > 16GB of RAM and 8 D1000 StorEdge disk arrays?
> > If so, what is the latest release (kernel version)?
>
> Errm. Not that I know the answer, but... Is there something wrong with
> Solaris?
The reason I ask is that AFAIK E4500/Solaris is generally regarded as
the most stable server to come out of Sun Microsystems. So I find it
a little strange when someone wants to run an OS written for 1 32-bit
Intel CPU and later ported to MP and other architectures, whose stable
kernel needs 20 revisions to get memory management subsystem to work,
on that hardware.
As for tools, AFAIK most GNU tools compile on Solaris just fine. And
since its package management system is so primitive, it takes all of
five minutes to roll them into a .pkg and install them via pkgadd.
Sure Solaris sucks. When dexconf wipes out XF86Config, alsaconf tries
to run sound driver with options it doesn't understand, or KDE won't
install because the same file is included in 4 different packages,
so does Debian. CDE sucks, too. I don't now why one would install CDE
on the server... besides, it's not like Gnome or KDE is all that much
better.
I guess I'm envious. I woudn't mind having an 8-way E45K with 8
Dilberts, and having time to play with linux on that.
Dima
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