no reason why you cannot run multiple, different OS' on either Serengeti (3800, 4800, 4810, 6800 boxes) or Starcat (SF15K).
I do this every day of the week. All the multi domain Sun boxes are quite happy running whatever version of Solaris you want and there is no technical reason why you couldn't mix Linux/Solaris/(some other Sparc64 OS) on different domains at the same time.
I've been using Smoothwall for a while now. I'm extremely satisified with it. I've hand crafted firewalls in the past and I decided to give it a try to ease the burden and it has more than filled the shoes of the things I manually configured before.
It's secure, featurefull and easy to configure - what more could you want?
This is a little more subtle though - rather annoy customers by telling them "there will be no S9/x86", they've started with "S9/x86 will be late".
Of course, we won't actually know until either
a) Solaris 9 for x86 comes out
or,
b) Sun says Solaris for x86 is canned
Only time will tell:)
Why has it not been canned now?
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Another interesting point to note is that Sun have not said that Solaris x86 is being canned. A t the moment they have just deferred the release of an initial FCS version of Solaris 9.
One of my colleagues suggested that perhaps Sun are testing the market, to see how people respond to a threat against future releases of S9/x86. If they wanted to get rid of Sol9/x86 then surely they could just come out and say so, but they haven't done that. Perhaps there is more to this than it initially seems.
Maybe Sun have decided there's no market for Solaris/x86 anymore.
You have to remember that nowadays, Sun makes very little money directly from sales of Solaris/x86, and the market that Sol/x86 did have is now also occupied by many other competing *nix.
OpenBSD has provided stability on x86 comparable to Solaris/x86 for a long time and to be honest, it's probably more featureful on the same hardware, Linux has all the bleeding edge stuff that Solaris never really gets to see on/any/ platform and there are other OS' which are also in there all trying to occupy a piece of the pie from which Sun doesn't make much money anyway.
Having said all that, this doesn't really leave any customers "in the lurch". According to the Register article, support for current versions of Solaris/x86 will continue for 7 years although I imagine this will end up being more like 10... Solaris 8/x86 is going to stick around for quite a while yet and whilst 9/x86 will never see the light of day, the majority of new features in 9 are appropriate (or even supported in pre-release 9/x86 builds) for "low-end" intel hardware anyway.
And just imagine... if there wasn't any air then we all wouldn't be around to pirate music and AOL wouldn't be guilty... now which b*$t&rd put air around here.
I think that you're going to have to be careful that the company you work for don't think that you have stolen their idea. I guess that could end up in a very nasty situation.
On the other hand... with all that experience, you should be able to produce something very good... pay rise... promotion...:)
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It's a USB 2.0 drive - 480MBit not fast enough for you? :)
looks like I was wrong
2.4.18 is missing the patch in every format.
It may only be in the gz tarball, not the bz2 one.
:)
linux-kernel is slowly working out what's what
Hmm, I'm not convinced.
It looks like the tarball is ok, but the patches haven't been created properly.
There's a report on linux-kernel that the 2.4.18 tarball is actually ok.
& m=101 467401412021&w=2
Has anyone had an opportunity to check?
Here's a link to the chap saying it's ok:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel
Perhaps you would like to add some detail.
"It corrupts your filesystems is useless".
Does it corrupt ext2fs, reiserfs... what fs type? or is it *all* filesystems. Please expand on your comment.
You have an account. Are you incapable of changing your homepage preferences to exclude the stuff your not interested in?
If your not sure how to do it, click on here and use some imagination rather than whinging about it.
I do this every day of the week. All the multi domain Sun boxes are quite happy running whatever version of Solaris you want and there is no technical reason why you couldn't mix Linux/Solaris/(some other Sparc64 OS) on different domains at the same time.
Why not submit this as an RFE to slashcode?
Walnut - don't be daft what use would a walnut firewall be?
It's secure, featurefull and easy to configure - what more could you want?
Of course, we won't actually know until either
a) Solaris 9 for x86 comes out
or,
b) Sun says Solaris for x86 is canned
Only time will tell :)
One of my colleagues suggested that perhaps Sun are testing the market, to see how people respond to a threat against future releases of S9/x86. If they wanted to get rid of Sol9/x86 then surely they could just come out and say so, but they haven't done that. Perhaps there is more to this than it initially seems.
and the reason is....
/dev/random
Solaris 9 has a "Sun-ized" build of OpenSSH with it which uses
You have to remember that nowadays, Sun makes very little money directly from sales of Solaris/x86, and the market that Sol/x86 did have is now also occupied by many other competing *nix.
OpenBSD has provided stability on x86 comparable to Solaris/x86 for a long time and to be honest, it's probably more featureful on the same hardware, Linux has all the bleeding edge stuff that Solaris never really gets to see on /any/ platform and there are other OS' which are also in there all trying to occupy a piece of the pie from which Sun doesn't make much money anyway.
Having said all that, this doesn't really leave any customers "in the lurch". According to the Register article, support for current versions of Solaris/x86 will continue for 7 years although I imagine this will end up being more like 10... Solaris 8/x86 is going to stick around for quite a while yet and whilst 9/x86 will never see the light of day, the majority of new features in 9 are appropriate (or even supported in pre-release 9/x86 builds) for "low-end" intel hardware anyway.
Durham University USIII Cluster running Gridengine went live yesterday (31st June). It's now the highest performing academic supercomputer in the UK.
Actually, what was Glaxo Wellcome are using these to run SAP (eugh) worldwide.
And just imagine... if there wasn't any air then we all wouldn't be around to pirate music and AOL wouldn't be guilty... now which b*$t&rd put air around here.
I think that you're going to have to be careful that the company you work for don't think that you have stolen their idea. I guess that could end up in a very nasty situation. On the other hand... with all that experience, you should be able to produce something very good... pay rise... promotion... :)