On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:35:06PM +0100, Eoghan Cotter wrote:
Wasn't there also a plan to turn it into a development server to give users the benifit of of a sun4u platform as well as a sun4v?
It was mentioned. I don't believe there's enough demand (or any) to justify the extra work involved in this.
And didn't we decide that Linus on Sparc was bad because no one uses it?
No, no one uses linux on T2000s, cynic will be supported just fine (imo).
And sun are more likly to give us stuff if we run solaris on sun hardware...
Great, then there'll me *more* machines we have to run solaris on. Personally, unless sun are offering a thumper or other storage device I don't want any more sun hardware, I don't think we need it. a. -- Andrew Harford System Administrator, DCU Networking Society Ordinary Member, Societies & Publications Committee My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. --Maximus (Gladiator)