[geeks] OS for an Ultra 2

Frank Van Damme frank.vandamme at gmail.com
Wed Jun 28 06:51:36 CDT 2006


On 6/28/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:

> That leaves Solaris and Linux.  Linux SMP on x86 is excellent, not sure
> about SPARC.  I hated Linux on SPARC years ago, but I've been told it is
> OK now.

Last time I looked, kernel 2.6 didn't run on sparc platforms. I
presume this has changed in the meantime (it should, anyway!), you
will probably want 2.6 if you need smp. Smp support has improved a
great deal since 2.4.

-- 
Frank Van Damme



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