[SunRescue] SS5 upgrade

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Perhaps that want us linux lovers should do.  Find a good coder and donate
a SS1000 or SS2000 to him (or better yet, her).  Who are the main SMP
people?

--
Joshua Boyd

On Wed, 16 May 2001, David Cantrell wrote:

> "Paul Khoury" <pkhoury2 at loop.com> wrote:
> > Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > 
> > I ordered an SS5 on eBay, which I should be getting tomorrow.
> > It's intended to replace my SS2 webserver.
> 
> I'm still happy with my SS2 webserver.  It can be a little slow when it
> has to hit Postgres, but for most stuff it's just fine.  I am going to
> move stuff over onto the SS1000e though, cos I want to do a lot more
> databasey stuff on the server.  I'll retire the SS2 to just doing mail
> and news.  The mail server will still have to hit Postgres (across the
> network) but I don't care if the mail server is slow.
> 
> I did think at one point that I needed more RAM in the SS2, but further
> investigation found one of my users running an infobot.  A big infobot.
> Without my approval.  Bad user.  EX user :-)
> 
> >                                              How much work do I need
> > to do to get everything working on it, without reinstalling the OS?
> > I know I need a new kernel,
> 
> Ha!  So Linux/Sparc is good for at least one thing then :-)  No messing
> around with kernel architectures, as 4c, 4d and 4m are all treated the
> same.
> 
> And yes, my SS2 is running Linux.  With only 64Mb I deemed Solaris to be
> silly.  And I was *far* more comfortable with Linux at the time.
> 
> The SS1000 will, needless to say, be running Solaris, as none of the 
> *BSD or Linux crowd have adequate SMP support.
> 
> -- 
> David Cantrell | cthulhu at unixbeard.net | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/
> 
>   Rip, Mix, Burn, unless you're using our "most advanced operating system
>    in the world" which we decided to release incomplete just for a laugh
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