Oracle Linux .. for Intel processors? Please ask him about Oracle Linux for Sparc. I would like to give it a try if they have it. Thanks -- Rick
On May 9, 2019 5:00:52 PM EDT, Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: >On 5/9/19 4:44 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: >>> Given that it works on a sun4u then I am guessing that a Sunblade >2000 >>> should be perfect for this sort of thing. I know that I have one of >>> those in the warehouse. However I think they need FCAL disks. >Anyways I >>> will give that a look see and also I hope serial console works out >of >>> the box. >> >> Yes, I should try it on some sun4u too. And probably bare hardware >sun4v - >> all my sparcs run Linux natively. >> >> About Blade 1x00/2x00 and E280R: they use qla2xxx for root disks and >last >> I tried this was broken in the kernel. It may be better now but older > >> Symbios >> and newer MPT etc controllers would probably be a safer try if you >have >> them >> available. >> > >My problem is that I have way too much sparc hardware in life and no >real up to date OS to run. Sure Solaris 10 is still around and barely >supported but it is horrific for performance. I was just speaking with >an Oracle salesrep about the new 5GHz T8 and he assures me that Oracle >has Linux running there. Oracle Linux v6 and v7 run there. He says. >Well >I see Oracle Linux as just a variation on the RHEL sources. > > >-- >Dennis Clarke >RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC >UNIX and Linux spoken >GreyBeard and suspenders optional -- Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com
