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

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>]

On 5/15/22 16:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 5/15/22 15:52, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > 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.
>
> FWIW, Oracle has released a community version of Solaris called "CBE" [1]
> which runs on any SPARC-T4 or newer machine. So, if you want to run a
> current version of Solaris, you can do that with a used T4 off eBay.
>
> Adrian

Yep. I have a friend that is doing that but there is no joy in it.
I think the real issue for me is that the M3000 is a brick.
A 64G ECC memory brick with 15k rpm SAS disks in it. Sad.


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