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Of the Love of Oldtimers - Dusting Off a Sun Fire V1280 Server

Posted by Unknown on from the mine-bitcoins-while-heating-your-home dept.

vikingpower writes "Today, I decided to acquire a refurbished Sun Fire V1280 server, with 8 CPUs. The machine will soon or may already belong to a certain history of computing. This project is not about high-performance computing, much more about lovingly dusting off and maintaining a piece of hardware considered quirky by 2013 standards. And Now the question creeps to mind: what software would Slashdotters run on such a beast, once it is upgraded to 12 procs and, say, 24 GiB of RAM ?"

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  1. Re:I must be getting old by CapeBretonBarbarian · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a port of open source Illumos / Opendiana that should work on this hardware :

    http://opensxce.org

    Solaris 11 will not work on this hardware, but sxce should work.

  2. can you please donate it to GNU compile farm by decora · · Score: 5, Informative

    they will stick Debian on it and people will use it to port free software.

    they do have a sunfire but it's almost out of disk space and there are tons of people using it already.