[rescue] Happy New Year! RIP, Sun/Solaris...

Robert Darlington rdarlington at gmail.com
Sun Jan 2 15:02:48 CST 2011


if I were smart, I'd donate this box to landfill and just forget about it.
I don't need another system up and running!

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Magnus <magnus at yonderway.com> wrote:

> On Jan 2, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Scott Newell wrote:
> >>
> >> Try Debian stable. http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc64/
> >
> > I had trouble with Debian on my U60--random hangs.  Seemed to go away
> once I
> pulled the second CPU.
>
> Honestly I've never been too impressed with Linux on sparc. It's a second
> tier
> platform at best.
>
> OpenBSD runs extremely well on my Sun hardware (including multiprocessor
> E250). But as mentioned previously, it's rather primitive.
>
> Magnus
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