Sorry, no sun4c and sun4m.

posted by [identity profile] cowlumbushacker.livejournal.com at 11:45pm on 10/11/2005

I wonder if [Debian GNU/Solaris] will run on the old sun4c and sun4m shoeboxes I have in the basement.


Unfortunately not. Debian GNU/Solaris is based on OpenSolaris (http://www.opensolaris.org/), which only runs on SPARC systems that are of the sun4u architecture and later (well, nothing newer than sun4u has been released, but Sun will soon be releasing processors with on-chip multithreading, the Niagra (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/09/niagara_many_cores/); this will be "sun4v", based on what I've heard). Also, OpenSolaris only runs on 64-bit capable sun4u systems. This effectively excludes all Ultra 1 systems and some lower-speed Ultra 2 systems due to 64-bit related bugs in the CPUs. You can get an 64-bit friendly Ultra 2 pretty cheaply nowadays (low hundreds; a lot better than when I saw people paying $15-$30k for them new).

Oh, Solaris/OpenSolaris also runs on x86 and x64, too. I don't know if the Debian GNU/Solaris folks are doing x86/x64 releases, as well.
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