[rescue] T5140 OS Choice

[Yvan Janssens]

Good morning,

I recently rescued a T5140 from the tip, and I'm wondering which OS'es
would run stable on it/which ones would be a good choice, especially in
lieu of the recent Solaris announcements.

What would most people run on these machines if they just kept them at home
for fun?

/y
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[William Enestvedt]

Running them at work, the current Solaris 10 was very satisfactory.

- Will

[Michael-John Turner]

Post by Yvan Janssens
What would most people run on these machines if they just kept them at
home for fun?

OpenBSD would be my choice. See, eg:
https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/OpenBSD-on-a-Sun-T5120

Cheers, MJ

[Jerry Kemp]

Assuming you have the resources (i.e. mostly memory), I would probably run
Solaris 11 as an LDOM primary & secondary, then you can run what ever you want
as guest LDOM's, including *BSD, and Solaris 10 & 11.x.

Jerry

Post by Yvan Janssens
Good morning,
I recently rescued a T5140 from the tip, and I'm wondering which OS'es
would run stable on it/which ones would be a good choice, especially in
lieu of the recent Solaris announcements.
What would most people run on these machines if they just kept them at home
for fun?
/y
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[William Enestvedt]

Though of course youbre not entitled to any patches if you run Solaris. :7(
Which makes running any OS besides the one written expressly for the box to be
preferable, which blows my mind.

*sad trombone*

- Will
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[Jerry Kemp]

Patching was obsoleted with the intro of Solaris 11.

Instead you get quarterly OS updates called SRU's that come in large blobs,
frequently multi-part 1.5Gb ones.

Jerry

Post by William Enestvedt
Though of course youbre not entitled to any patches if you run Solaris. :7(
Which makes running any OS besides the one written expressly for the box to be
preferable, which blows my mind.
*sad trombone*
- Will

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[Michael-John Turner]

Post by Jerry Kemp
Instead you get quarterly OS updates called SRU's that come in large
blobs, frequently multi-part 1.5Gb ones.

Those require a support contract though, don't they?

Cheers, MJ

[Jerry Kemp]

SRU's, you-bet-ya.

Unofficially, for those interested in patches, those are frequently found on the
Internet at large using your favorite search engine. Seems that we had a thread
regarding that subject about just a month or so ago.

Regarding SRU updates, I haven't seen any of those out in the wild, but I can't
state that I have looked for those either.

Jerry

Post by Michael-John Turner

Post by Jerry Kemp
Instead you get quarterly OS updates called SRU's that come in large blobs,
frequently multi-part 1.5Gb ones.

Those require a support contract though, don't they?
Cheers, MJ

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[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Jerry Kemp <***@oryx.us>
"
"
" Unofficially, for those interested in patches, those are frequently found on the
" Internet at large using your favorite search engine. Seems that we had a thread
" regarding that subject about just a month or so ago.

i've looked desultorily now and again, but i've never found any
patches from after sun ended open access and i'm already up to date as
of that point.

" Regarding SRU updates, I haven't seen any of those out in the wild, but I can't
" state that I have looked for those either.

so - maybe they have been successful in keeping the lid on,
post-crackdown.
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