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I'm thinking of buying a Sun server. Not sure exactly what, but maby Ultra n, ultrasparc.... something up to 500 quid (1000 big ones)
I've heard linux runs well on them, but i was wondering if Slackware does (single, dual or quad cpu ones).. And if not, then is there a way to manually get slack to work by force
I used solaris 10 in a pc x86, although it as some good server functions (like the zone
concept to limit filesystem/memory access for services) I prefer much slackware for x86
platform.
Now that depends on what you want to do with your Sparc machine
Thanks, i've noticed that "Slackware no longer supports SPARC in its current releases. However there is a unofficial version of Slackware for SPARC called SPLACK"
Distribution: RHEL, Ubuntu, Solaris 11, NetBSD, OpenBSD
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What about giving Debian a whirl on it? They have a version that supports sparc64 and sun4u.
Also, if you like Slackware, there are also versions of BSD for sparc64. I've had both OpenBSD and currently FreeBSD on my Ultra5, both worked well, although both installers didn't get on so well with the console. And my first install of OpenBSD from a image dd'd to a Solaris 9 swap partition had a few issues with detecting and partitioning the hd too. Personally, I put it down to the Ultra5's dodgy IDE controller, not anything I did
On another note, if you're just fed up with x86 hardware and want some interesting new hardware to play with, how about the PA-RISC based machines like the HP C9000?
Were I blessed with Sun hardware, I'd run Solaris on it. I have managed many, MANY servers running Solaris, specifically as web servers, also running Websphere as an application server, and Oracle on the backend. Rock-freaking-solid. It was all but fire-and-forget. We'd get the ball rolling, hand them over to the developers, and patch the OS and apps periodically. Never got calls in the middle of the night, except in the rare case that the application was hosed, but that was the web app, not Oracle or Websphere.
If you get your hands on a Sparc box, put Solaris on it. Otherwise, it'd be a bit like buying a Mac and putting Windows on it...
- Are there Solaris package websites? like linuxpackages.net ?
- I'm assuming compiling applications is the same 'compile make make install'.. And most of *nix software i can use in solaris too, like xfce, gaim, ...
- How easy is upgrading the system / software (eg, swaret, yum)
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