gentoo). It runs great on old ultra's, sound even works. It would be
interesting to see hypervisor on a sparc.
On 10/9/07, jtwelty@indiana.edu <jtwelty@indiana.edu> wrote:
> Perhaps for a meeting taking place in Dec. or later I could do a
> presentation on Linux on SPARC - Ubuntu has a version that will run
> natively on SPARC (see much more at
> http://www.linux.com/base/ldp/howto/SPARC-HOWTO.html). At my workplace,
> for our web-based application servers they've invested in a tricked-out
> Sun Blade T6320 with 8 cores - 64 threads, 64 GB memory, 176 Gbps I/O
> throughput, 10 GbE networking.
> As for the virtualization capabilities - Hypervisors, Xen and Solaris
> containers - kicks the snot out of VMware in terms of building a
> virtual web farm. You can also mix & match with Linux, Solaris, Windoze
> in the same chassis.
> I'd like to help get this set up at work and then have the results
> become part of a future presentation.
>
>
> Quoting Steven Black <blacks@indiana.edu>:
>
> > So I and a few others were at the Ohio Linux Conference. While
> > I was there, I talked to some folks from Foresight Linux:
> >
http://www.foresightlinux.org/
> >
> > It looks like a really interesting distribution, particularly
> > for folks that like GNOME, as their release schedule closely
> > follows that of GNOME. (As in, their users have the next
> > version of GNOME before it hits the official GNOME servers.)
> >
> > It also has some interesting features for folks that like the
> > bleeding edge. The package management system appears to integrate
> > features more commonly found in version control systems -- to
> > the point that configuration file changes are merged in, instead
> > of over-writing the whole file. Additionally the system supports
> > package roll-back back to the point of the initial installation.
> >
> > In any case, I think it sounds like an interesting distribution
> > that many people may be interested in hearing about. Unfortunately,
> > I don't have the time to play with it. However, I thought I'd
> > mention it for the November meeting. Someone else may be equally
> > interested, and if they're going to check it out, they may as well
> > share with us what their thoughts and feelings are.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steven Black
> >
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