[tech] Re: [ucc-announce] Re: Donations for manbo upgrade

[David Basden]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 05:13:31PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:04:51AM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> > manbo, the Sun Enterprise 6000 has settled in pretty happily to the UCC
> > - it's humming quietly just inside the machine room. It's currently
> > holding the non-/home network filesystems (such as the webpages on
> > /services and the Windows home directories).
> 
> Still growing, a little help appreciated.
> http://webcam.ucc.asn.au/webcam3.php
> 
> People have been playing with Solaris on manbo - I know of [DGB] with
> bochs and QEMU builds, [MSH] with Monotone. [DAG]'s got manduba booting
> Debian with NFS-root for the moment - the installer doesn't support
> that properly anymore. (!) You can ssh into manbo or manduba and poke
> 'round, or come along to tomorrow (Friday) evening's night of pizza and
> SPARC-ery in the clubroom.

As a side issue, is there a good reason not to move to Solaris 10
rather than staying with 9? Solaris 10 is trying to go for more
linux affinity (binary and library support), and seems to have slightly
less sucky virtualization[0]

.. D

[0] Not that that is going to be that crash hot, but I wanted to see if
I could get UML running on it. Strange urge to use spare CPU cycles
going to waste when it's heating the room. Might run PVM or Seti at Home on
it...