On 10/9/06, RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually I agree with David B. here. I know developing an OS is a huge task and with nothing but security on your mind, building bridges seems a trivial task compared to it. However having more than one processor is rapidly becoming a commodity and not supporting enough hardware is a death stab. If a 5 year old RAID controller is not supported, what can be expected in the future? Yes I'm sure there isn't enough documentation available, license disagreements, etc... but come on, it's 5 years old!
You chose to deploy Sparc64. If you want decent support for your Sun hardware, maybe you should run Sun's operating system? There are many great security and performance features in Solaris 10.
You would think _somebody_ would at least make an attempt at it. I can imagine OpenBSD being reduced to something that is used on embedded devices. It's not really much for desktop (compared with other operating systems) and without decent SMP support and a huge list of RAID controllers, active use of OpenBSD in server environments could drop rapidly.
There is decent SMP support and a good sized list of RAID controllers, on i386 and AMD64. Not all "server environments" are built around Sun Microsystems. On 10/9/06, Damian Wiest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've actually got an E450 at home myself that hasn't been setup yet. It's got quad processors, a couple of gigs of RAM and one or two of the disk expansion boards (with Symbios 2201, 2202 or 2204 cards). Do many people have these things? I'm just wondering how much help I could be to the project if I ran OpenBSD on the thing versus Solaris 10.
I have an E450 chassis at home, but haven't made it functional. I was going to donate it, but it lacks the DC-DC converters, plus the shipping cost would be horrendous. Kevin
