[Cialug] Sun + Linux

[Lee]

Aaron Porter wrote:

> On 2/14/06, *Nathan C. Smith* <smith at ipmvs.com 
> <mailto:smith at ipmvs.com>> wrote:
>
>     I don't have any personal experience with it, but I know somebody
>     who is
>     running it on a 4-way opteron machine.  He's ga-ga over Sun so I
>     don't know
>     if his opinion would count though.
>
>
> Linux on Sun Opterons is pretty straight forward. Though if you're 
> looking at the v20z or the v40z a few googles for Newisys will turn up 
> the same hardware at substantially lower prices. What I'd be more 
> interested in is Linux on some of the SMP Sparc boxes. We've done some 
> Debian on Blade 100 and Blade 150 boxes with pretty miserable results. 
> Shame. I ran RedHat on an Sparc IPX for way too many years.
>
Which is along the lines of what I had in mind. I'm looking at running a 
8 way Enterprise 3500. It appears that people have used Debian for these 
with good results. I'm just looking for a personal perspective.

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