On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 08:43:29PM +0100, Andrew Martin wrote:
* We (redbrick) seemed to be the only people anywhere actually using Linux on a production T2000. This worries us greatly, as it means vendors are unlikely to put too much time into fixing bugs.
I'm running another one too :-) but it's still got an original dapper on it.
* Ubuntu 8.04 doesn't support SPARC at all, which kinda ties back into the second point. People aren't interested in supporting it. Debian has a SPARC port that apparently supports a Niagara CPU, but there seems to be nobody (like, absolutely nobody, anywhere) using it in production. I only came across one reference to one guy using it in testing. For a morning's worth of googling, this isn't encouraging.
Yeah, it sucks :/ But using Solaris isn't so bad, handy for playing with dtrace and so on.
That's all really. Anyone have any feedback? We're completely open to suggestions on this, nothing has been decided with murphy at this point.
Sounds cool! -- colmmacc@redbrick.dcu.ie PubKey: colmmacc+pgp@redbrick.dcu.ie Web: http://devnull.redbrick.dcu.ie/