My first Sun was a Sun 3/60, I loved it, it was a great workstation and I've used it for years, it even (back then) seemed fast. Since then, things have quite changed, computers got somewhat faster and it's time for me to find the "Perfect" OpenSolaris workstation.
Why you'd ask? Well, one of the projects I'm working on it the migration of hundreds of Linux servers (and few BSDish) to opensolaris, the only way I can dive into OpenSolaris myself is to run it on my own workstation, therefore my criteria to qualify the "Perfect" OpenSolaris workstation is a workstation that would be able to compile OpenSolaris from source at an acceptable speed (under an hour for sure, the faster the better) and be reasonably priced (clearly under $10k, I see that as an investment, something I'll keep for a few years). In addition I will be building packages on my own workstation and later on push them to production. In order to test my distribution and/or packages, something like Xen would be appreciated. What are reasonable choices these days for a very fast OpenSolaris workstation? Sun Ultra 40, Ultra 45? Dual/Quad Woodcrest or Dual/Quad AMD64 or maybe Dual Sparc (I understand that crosscompilation will be available soon?) please let me know, and if you do already own such screamer, please let me know how long it takes to compile an OpenSolaris build on your box. Thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
