Debian seems to, at least, and if not there are the BSDs, OpenBSD, NetBSD probably being the ones I'd look at, FreeBSD is pretty heavily x86 oriented I think.
Allan On Mon, Oct 22, 2012, at 08:02 PM, Rolf wrote: > Surely linux still has a sparc build? > > Sent via string from my tin can. > > Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > > >That thing will probably suck a LOT of power. And according to > >Wikipedia the V890 had UltraSPARC processors, and it's also EOL-ed so no > >support or parts other than what you can find on the secondhand market. > > > >I don't think any VMWare stuff will run on Sparc. But not certain. > > > >I think you be better off with a more power-efficient, newer Intel or > >AMD-based host. > > > >Allan > > > > > >Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> writes: > > > >> I have recently acquired a Sunfire V890 server with all the fixin's from > >> our library circulation system. > >> > >> I know nothing about Sun systems, other than this one was running a mother > >> of an Oracle database (all of the library materials for the school > >> district.) > >> > >> I am wondering if there is a way I could retask it to be a host in one of > >> our VM clusters, and/or if it's capable of running esxi v5.0 or lower. > >> > >> If there are any IT geeks out there that might know what I can do with > >> this beast, I would love to hear your suggestions. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Dan > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > >-- > >Allan Streib > > > >_______________________________________ > >http://www.okiebenz.com > >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
