> Now if only they'd make SPARC-based machines > reasonably-priced... that's
Ebay has cheap ultra 5/10. Though I have some contact suppliers that can beat ebay prices by less than 30%. > going to be a good one (given that the SPARC > doesn't have some of the > irritating side-effects of i386 like IRQ > conflicts, among others). yes, and what I really love are the built-in serial consoles. If a box dies or would not boot up, i can still fix the box even if at home or even half a world way without being physically be in the datacenter. What's interesting is that SUN has brought that capability to the X86 market via a new product entry line called SunFire V20z. It's based on the AMD64 opteron and is certified to run SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 AMD64 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AMD64. It has a BIOS which has remote control features like OBP. It also has a trimmed down Service processor hardware PowerPC running on trimmed down linux embedded server with SSL support and a dedicated 10/100mbps ethernet for remote control server operations. Another interesting note is that SUN will have a specific Solaris for the AMD opterons. So, there will be now three Solaris distros: Solaris X86 (32bit) Solaris SPARC (64bit) Solaris AMD64 (64bit) > Maybe just as a testing server. I'm more > interested in the > tracing/profiling utilities that come with > Solaris. But on the Dtrace. Have heard of good reviews with it. > administration side - heck I really wish Solaris > would have an advanced > package management with it! the package > management it currently has is a > royal PITA. Yes it's crude, but for me, all the basic/medium package management needs are met. It can be helped though if you use pkg-get from http://www.blastwave.org. In the main web page, the inspiration was Debian. Not the pkg-get from sunfreeware. Hate it since it installs in /usr/local and can sometimes interfere with locally compiled packages which is also in /usr/local. Not to mention some b0rken packages from sunfreeware! blastwave is really good and if you install a package, it will also get necessary dependencies ala debian. now, all the utilities and programs that i like in linux, i can also use it solaris with minimum effort. For perspective, I can install apache mod SSL and will be up and running and can access the URL in less than 5 minutes. damn, i have not even touched the configuration files to suite my taste yet! regards, --- Andre M. Varon, SCSA -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
