31 Oct
2010
31 Oct
'10
6:10 p.m.
At 5:11 PM -0400 10/31/10, Dave McGuire wrote:
Not my call, for us Solaris is a legacy platform. :-( These days I'm
doing good to dabble occasionally with a Linux box. Helps I'm
basically the only one in my group with UNIX experience. That means
I get called in for unusual problems. :-)
Zane
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I've had a few. Basically uniprocessor Ultra60s
with
significantly limited CPU module compatibility. Oh, and they only
have one UPA framebuffer slot, not two like the Ultra60. Basically
a sadly lobotomized Ultra60.
Oh! Nice! That would actually make a good OpenBSD box, as far as I
know, it still isn't supporting a 2nd CPU on Sparc and UltraSparc.
Yes, they are impressively compact. The BSDs really
do fly on
those machines. I'm deploying lots of Netra X1s (400 & 500MHz
UltraSPARC-IIe) at customer sites these days as firewall/VPN
endpoint machines, running NetBSD from nifty little 1GB SSDs that
plug right into the ATA connector on the board.
That's handy.
I've run 10
at home briefly, but for the most part at work we stopped at
8, with a few systems running 9. Now we're mostly Linux & Windows. :-(
Eeeek. Time to move. ;) (though Linux certainly has grown up in
recent years...I can't really complain about it now)