Re: Debian on Sun box any advantage?

[John Bevins <johnb@netptc.net>]

Hi Michelle,

What distribution of Linux is running on the below configuration?

Regards,
John


Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2008-10-22 13:18:26, schrieb John Bevins:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I don't know much about Sun boxes. What advantage, if any, is there to 
> > running Debian on a Sun box as opposed to a brand name x86 server?
> >
> > Regards,
> > John
>
> I use three Sun Blade with 32 CPU's and 64 GByte of memory with now  160
> hardrives attached as PostgreSQL server and it is faster then the hell.
>
> Also I have Sun Storage Servers with plenty of drives.
>
> They have never failed and since Sun has offered me Solaris OR  Linux  I
> with the same support I have choosen Linux...
>
> There is not a singel thing, which is NOT working, including Hotswaping
> of CPU's or memory...
>
> OK, this are not computers for the pocket and cost money, but the SPARC
> CPU's run more reliable as Intel (Itanium) or AMD (Opteron) CPU's.
>
> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
>     Michelle Konzack
>     Systemadministrator
>     24V Electronic Engineer
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