Re: Anyone ever tried Debian on a Fujitsu/Oracle M3000 ?

[Chris Quayle <syseng@gfsys.co.uk>]

On 05/15/22 15:57, Chris Newport wrote:
> On 15/05/2022 14:52, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > On 5/14/22 17:52, Rick Leir wrote:
> > >  From folks who have tried? Sorry, no. If the info below is not
> > > helpful, sorry and please just delete my message.
> > > Is illumos or SmartOS an option? Info from Bryan Cantrill:
> > > http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of-solaris/
> > >
> > > Following a few links from that article to
> > > https://illumos.org/docs/about/distro/ , I see that
> > > derived systems claim to have SPARC builds: Tribblix, DilOS, and V9os.
> > >
> > > cheers -- Rick
> >
> > Yep .. been there and read that. Even if any of those did work at all we
> > are going in a circle and landing back on some Solaris thing. That is
> > not really of any value any more. It is beginning to sound a lot like
> > Oracle sold a whack of machines to people about ten years ago and they
> > are all dead pieces of trash and junk today. Nothing runs there any
> > more.
>
> They should still run just fine on older versions of Solaris (8 or 10 ?)
> and similar
> aged Debian and BSD variants. Not trash, just stuck in their own time.
>
> I have customers still running Ultra 60s and a few still on ancient
> stuff running
> SunOs 4.1.4, they still run the tasks they were bought for and will be
> replaced
> with modern kit when they finally die. The killer will be the SCSI disks.

Been running Solaris 10 on an M3000 for 5 or 6 years now, for the home
lab server. Has a perfectly usable desktop with the addition of an
XVR300 graphics card and a pcie usb card, as the usb on the M3k is
not reachable from the host os. Forget the make, but just looked for a
usb card with a chipset supported under the sol 10 hcl.

Damn good machine and faster than any other Spparc ever run here...

Chris