22 Mar
2010
22 Mar
'10
8:26 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Mar 21, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
From what I've heard and been told, it's pretty dire. Frankly if I
was told to set up a server without using Linux, I'd probably go with
one of the BSDs...
Nah, you've been told wrong. It runs on pretty much anything
nowadays. It used to need very specific hardware, but that hasn't
been the case for years.
Official Solaris 10 x86 seems to be hard to get fully working on
hardware - On and off, I've been looking at Newegg and copying and
pasting the motherboard models into the bigadmin HW compat webpage and
been getting very few hits. Maybe the hw compat list hasn't been
updated, I don't know... OTOH, I've been hearing loads of people say
OpenSolaris usually works on far more systems. I'd like to get real Sol
10, but at some point I'll likely give up and go with Open.
That said, if you've got a specific board recommendation that I can get
off newegg that's known to work - something I can stuff upto 4GB of RAM
and has loads of SATA plugs, gig-ethernet (single is fine), onboard
video (meaning I'm not interested in wasting a slot on a video card I'll
almost never use), and a few PCI slots (for firewire), I'm all ears.
:-D Since I'd be going with ZFS, I wouldn't want hw raid, I'd rather
let ZFS do the scrubs itself and not have the RAID controller mask
failures from it.
I don't know what Solaris 10's hardware
support looks like
these days on x86 machines,