Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-10 Thread Kent West
Oki DZ wrote: John Griffiths wrote: I believe he knows, last sun seminar I went to they were waxing lyrical about doing something very similar to apt. Is there any distant clue that he suffers from the NIH syndrome? I hope not. BTW, what makes it impossible the way apt does on Debian sys

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-07 Thread John Griffiths
At 09:26 AM 3/8/02 +0700, Oki DZ wrote: >John Griffiths wrote: >> I believe he knows, last sun seminar I went to they were waxing lyrical >> about doing something very similar to apt. > >Is there any distant clue that he suffers from the NIH syndrome? I hope not. > >BTW, what makes it impossible t

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-07 Thread Oki DZ
John Griffiths wrote: I believe he knows, last sun seminar I went to they were waxing lyrical about doing something very similar to apt. Is there any distant clue that he suffers from the NIH syndrome? I hope not. BTW, what makes it impossible the way apt does on Debian systems would work on

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-07 Thread John Griffiths
> >I think somebody has to send an email to Scott McNeally; telling him >that .deb format is _way_ neater than .pkg. > I believe he knows, last sun seminar I went to they were waxing lyrical about doing something very similar to apt.

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-07 Thread Oki DZ
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: The reason I ask is that AFAIK E4500/Solaris is generally regarded as the most stable server to come out of Sun Microsystems. So I find it a little strange when someone wants to run an OS written for 1 32-bit Intel CPU and later ported to MP and other architectures, whose st

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-07 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:53:50AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Sure Solaris sucks. When dexconf wipes out XF86Config, alsaconf tries > to run sound driver with options it doesn't understand, or KDE won't > install because the same file is included in 4 different packages, > so does Debian. CDE

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > * Paul DeHerrera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > Will debian work on my Sun Enterprise 4500 server, which has 8 processors, > > 16GB of RAM and 8 D1000 StorEdge disk arrays? > > If so, what is the latest release (kernel version)? > > Errm.

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-07 Thread dsr
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:17:04PM -0800, Paul DeHerrera wrote: > Will debian work on my Sun Enterprise 4500 server, which has 8 processors, > 16GB of RAM and 8 D1000 StorEdge disk arrays? > If so, what is the latest release (kernel version)? Probably. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-07 Thread Oki DZ
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Errm. Not that I know the answer, but... Is there something wrong with Solaris? Maybe he has been completely convinced that apt is better than pkgtool. BTW, Linux would max out at 8 processors, right? Or.. was it 16? Oki

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-06 Thread glynis
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:53:15PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Errm. Not that I know the answer, but... Is there something wrong with > Solaris? i think many of us have been spoiled by all the tools we can have installed effortlessly on our nice debian machines. i know i have been. i liked pl

Re: Sun hardware

2002-03-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Paul DeHerrera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Will debian work on my Sun Enterprise 4500 server, which has 8 processors, > 16GB of RAM and 8 D1000 StorEdge disk arrays? > If so, what is the latest release (kernel version)? Errm. Not that I know the answer, but... Is there something wrong wi