Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work
On 11/20/2012 11:22 AM, Anonymous wrote:
You wrote:
License aside,
Solaris whether it be 10 or 11 doesn't have many applications available
for it that Linux or FreeBSD contain.
Solaris has virtually everything available, it's UNIX. You can get virtually
anything to build unless it's specifically written to require Linux. If you
can't build it yourself there are 3rd party package repos and sites and
there are mailing lists for Solaris help too.
Ok I understand your point and Sun Freeware and OpenCSW et el.... are
really good projects however, since I'm trying to use the server for VDI
I need things like the Gnome3 and KDE4 user environments not to mention
end user based apps. It's easier to apt-get then build things from
source all the time!
This box is used in conjunction with Solaris 10 running SRSS and SGD.
So if Firefox and Thunderbird are enough that's great but anything else
forget about.
How many packages do you need? Do you need all 22,000 in FreeBSD ports (btw
only a fraction of those will build on any given platform aside from i386)
or can you live with the 6,000 packages from OpenBSD?
You do realize you're being a bit silly. I have 12 Debian Linux (Opteron)
servers in production and 15 Suns running Solaris. We haven't noticed a
problem with lack of software for our enterprise. Not sure why you think you
can't use an Enterprise OS on the hardware it was designed to run
on. Watching you try to get a Swedish engine control system to run your
Italian Ferrari is a bit painful. Just trying to help. There is no better OS
for Sun SPARC boxes than Solaris. Nothing comes close.
Desktop based packages as stated above which Solaris is really weak for
not to mention different Desktop environments.
For application based servers which as the OP I am using my box as, my
choices for SPARC platform are either Debian or FreeBSD.
Why not Net or OpenBSD?
OpenBSD is awsome but lacks the desktop apps I need. I've never used
NetBSD however the Force10 OS is built round it so that's a good thing :-)
I think soon I'm going to re-jumpstart the machine with FreeBSD 9 -
though it means extra work however, at least the NICs will be usable.
Yep, better choice than Linux on SPARC. I love Debian on my AMD boxes but
Linux is not a good choice on SPARC.
Am gona wait for this and see if I can actually help sort out the NIC
issue rather then just complaining about things not working.
Regards,
Kaya
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