On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Dennis Clarke <dcla...@blastwave.org> wrote: > <snippage> >> More importantly, it would mean that project teams doing extensive >> kernel work (such as the ones already named) would have to do testing on >> old US-I machines, which at least at Sun are getting harder and harder >> to find. They break down and can't be repaired due to a lack of parts. >> They are expensive in terms of lab real estate, power, and heat. >> They've long since fallen off the price list. They're very slow and >> usually very limited in memory and disk space, and thus make poor test >> machines. Many can't even boot the installer anymore. > > I am glad this has been said. I have a whole slew of old hardware all the > way back to the Sun SPARC 670MP and a big ol' DEC AlphaServer from 1996. > They make sort of cool fridges if you buy a bar fridge and skin it. Other > than that I have no idea why anyone would care anymore. My quad Ross Sparc > 20 serves a purpose on very rare moments when I want to test something > obscure. Then I power it off again. Even with a vintage Solaris 8 support > contract it can not be patched anymore .. sun4m just isn't supported > anywhere anymore. Why would it? > > I do think that looking at very low cost, low power embedded technology is > very worth while both for economic reasons and ecological reasons. A full > build of the kernel can take 24 hours on a VIA C7 Coolstream cpu based > unit but the result is as stable as a rock and perfectly usable. I can't > see any benefit in digging up the old UltraSparc I 160E or the Sparc 20. > Regardless of how cool they are to see running. > > Put NetBSD or OpenBSD/FreeBSD on them or even run Solaris 8. > > But Solaris Nevada/OpenSolaris ? Not even in a drunken moment in some > geeky bar in Silicon Valley would anyone scrawl that crazy idea on a > napkin. > > -- > Dennis Clarke > dcla...@opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris > dcla...@blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris
Hello! I have here a US-5 (UltraSparc 5), and that system is running Sol 10 (The version from 3/2005), and runs rather nicely from a Serial Console. For historical reasons I am interested in the VME Bus portions of Solaris. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the Moscow subway." _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
