Re: Debian on Sun Enterprise 250
This will be server for some advanced web engineering
students.
Sounds like you've had good experiences with it.
Thanks,
Pete Ballasy
---- Ian Cass <ian.cass@mblox.com> wrote:
> P Ballasy <ipeteconfig@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Being unfamiliar with Sun hardware and any Debian
> > distro, I have some specs to run by you all to see
> if
> > I should, in reality, dump the Solaris 5.7 OS on
> our
> > Sun Enterprise 250 and replace it with Debian 3.0.
>
> Our E250 here was installed with Suse Linux years
> ago before I came along
> and started using Debian everywhere.
>
> ian.cass@aerosmith:~ > uptime
> 11:25am up 173 days, 23:11, 2 users, load
> average: 5.62, 6.58, 6.76
>
> ian.cass@aerosmith:~ > uname -a
> Linux aerosmith 2.4.19 #1 SMP Tue Aug 6 15:47:06 GMT
> 2002 sparc64 unknown
>
> It's only ever rebooted on the rare occasion that I
> upgrade the kernel. It's
> our mail server & is rock solid stable.
>
> We've also got 2 x E450's and an E420 which are also
> rock solid stable.
>
> I don't think you'd want to use the E250 as a
> desktop device because Linux
> does not support the environment monitoring system
> on these machines, so the
> fans run at full speed all the time rather than
> switching to low speed. For
> us, this doesn't matter as they are all cabinet
> mounted.
>
> --
> Ian Cass
>
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