29 Jun
2006
29 Jun
'06
2:33 p.m.
Solaris 9 seems to be where I'm going to run the stuff Ultra5 and under.
I may play with the Ultra5 with 10 -- but it runs quite nicely on the two
boxes I've got and Solaris 10 seemed to be a bit slower.
I'd love to try to get Solaris10 on my Ultra1E with the 170mhz cpu... just
to see if it runs.
I tried Solaris 9 and Solaris8 and Solaris 7 and I don't seem to see a speed
degradation on boxes with enough memory.
I think 10's a bit heavier.
4.1.4U1 works pretty well on Sparc2 class boxes and really nice on mine with
the SparcUp upgrades in 'em.
They all have at least 48mb of memory. 64 if possible.
BIll
On 6/29/06, Scott Quinn <compoobah at valleyimplants.com> wrote:
Solaris 9 is the last version to run on all
64-bit Ultras; Solaris 10 is
very impressive from a networking and virtualization standpoint (plus
ZFS kicks some serious ass) and is what you should be running if at all
possible.
So where's your line between 9 and 10? I just moved from a U1 200E to a
U10 333, and I stuck with
5.9 because I was concerned about usability on the U10.
All other versions can hit the road for all I care
(unless
you need BSD SunOS 4.x for 1980s hardware).
4.1.1_U1 is definitely the one to use for Sun3, but I like 4.1.4 on
my IPX (Sun4c) as well. Never tried 2.5.1, but 2.6 was very slow.