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