Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Bruce Ferrell <bferrell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Carlos <dubbsix@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>
> > Why not run Solaris on it?
>
>
> Is there a 64-bit x86-64 Solaris that runs on AMD64 machines?  AFAIR
> the Sun Fire is such a machine...
>
>
> > --- Bruce Ferrell <bferrell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Sun certifies SLES9 on it, but that's a bit on the
> > > old side.
> > >
> > > Are there any known features that aren't supported?
>
>
> > > Has anyone done this?
> > >
> > > Any feedback on a possible load like this?
>
>
> Should work - but with SLES you get a longer lifetime (7 years instead
> of 2), maintenance, certifications etc.  If you don't need those, you
> can try 10.0,
>
> Andreas

Yeah, certs and maintenance such aren't required.

I was more interested in finding out if the box had any oddball hardware 
like an AIC7902 that only has closed source support for the host raid 
functionality.