microc...@zoho.com wrote:
I screwed up the quoting here, sorry. Jeff didn't write all below, I think
some of it was Mark.
On Wed, 09 May 2012 18:01:43 -0400 Jeff Wormsley wrote:
And what, pray, is wrong with Slackware? :-)
Nothing :-) Once you Slack you never go back!
Most of the SPARC systems around here are Debian (plus one each of
Solaris 8 and 10), but I've got Slackware 12 IIRC on an E4500 since
the Debian installer wouldn't work. Good machine for testing
multithreaded stuff on account of the number of CPUs.
Hah! I didn't even think of that. I've been thinking it would be nice to
have a SPARC port of Slackware but it hasn't been maintained.
How many sockets do you have on your E4500?
12, i.e. space for an I/O card and internal discs for booting. I prefer
the SS1000 architecture, where each of the eight cards is identical so
you can have 16x CPUs plus full I/O... in addition being a Xerox PARC
design it has a certain pedigree ;-)
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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