[geeks] Are these servers that bad?

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On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 08:59:41PM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> I went looking into SmartOS, surprised to see it is Intel only - but it
> does look interesting... 

Illumos/OI is for all intents and purposes dead on SPARC. There was a
one-man effort to get a SPARC version going and it got pretty far but there
are some significant "issues." It looks like anybody who wants to run
Solaris on SPARC has the choice of Solaris.

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