Well, if your sparc hardware runs under linux (which some of it doesn't), chances are Gentoo will run fine. I've been running Gentoo on sparc for about eighteen months, and it's gotten a *lot* better over time. There're a lot more developers working on it now than there were previously, and the new QA tools in portage 2.0.50+ no longer allow developers to accidentally screw up other archs.
I guess you've never used an IBM 2105 Enterprise Storage Server. Totally redundant, dual controllers, SSA loops to avoid failures in SCSI cables. You *can* get fully redundant kit, but as it's aimed at mainframe and high end people, it's about half as much again as, say, a 7133.
Not really. Gentoo isn't limited to Linux -- the Gentoo/Linux name was dropped a long time ago. There're ports underway for *BSD, OSX and possibly IRIX.
The source tarball seems to be broken on the mirrors (two bad bzip2 checksums from seperate mirrors), so no ebuilds for Gentoo and no luck for anyone using any arch not on the binaries list.
This is one of the things Vim 7 will do. And really, I couldn't bear going back to plain old vi after having used vim for so long. Too many features missing...
No, Brad Spender is an arrogant fucktard who cared more about screwing over people who disagreed with him (for example, he tried to deliberately withold information on a RedHat security flaw until after Fedora Core 2 was released, just to bring them around to his way of thinking) than fixing things.
I think you'll find that other distributions have integrity too, but not the same aim. Most other distributions are designed to "work" rather than be "religiously pure".
If you're going to review an OS on an UltraSparc box, please pick anything other than the u5/10. The u5/10 is basically a PC clone with an ultrasparc processor. It has a pisspoor IDE chipset, a crippled CPU (IIi has far less cache than a II), a crippled PCI backplane, low memory bandwidth and a PC-like chipset. A far better measure of how well an OS has been ported is an Ultra 2.
(and yes, I do know what I'm talking about, and I have sparc-related code in the Linux kernel to prove it:) )
-mm kernels include fixes for the ht screwiness. Well, not fixes per se, but hacks that make the scheduler a bit smarter. Problem is, linux still sees a single HT CPU as two discrete CPUs, so there's a performance hit because of the way registers are handled.
I've reported at least a dozen of these and never once had any response. Has anyone ever had any luck from a daddypants email? I suspect they're devnulling it...
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Well, if your sparc hardware runs under linux (which some of it doesn't), chances are Gentoo will run fine. I've been running Gentoo on sparc for about eighteen months, and it's gotten a *lot* better over time. There're a lot more developers working on it now than there were previously, and the new QA tools in portage 2.0.50+ no longer allow developers to accidentally screw up other archs.
I guess you've never used an IBM 2105 Enterprise Storage Server. Totally redundant, dual controllers, SSA loops to avoid failures in SCSI cables. You *can* get fully redundant kit, but as it's aimed at mainframe and high end people, it's about half as much again as, say, a 7133.
Stick it in a biiiiiig block of ice. It's a perfect solution!
Not really. Gentoo isn't limited to Linux -- the Gentoo/Linux name was dropped a long time ago. There're ports underway for *BSD, OSX and possibly IRIX.
Because command-line clients can be screened. X apps can't.
orpheus is also good, and has a less confusicating interface.
The source tarball seems to be broken on the mirrors (two bad bzip2 checksums from seperate mirrors), so no ebuilds for Gentoo and no luck for anyone using any arch not on the binaries list.
This is one of the things Vim 7 will do. And really, I couldn't bear going back to plain old vi after having used vim for so long. Too many features missing...
No, Brad Spender is an arrogant fucktard who cared more about screwing over people who disagreed with him (for example, he tried to deliberately withold information on a RedHat security flaw until after Fedora Core 2 was released, just to bring them around to his way of thinking) than fixing things.
Do you want to learn Japanese, or do you want to understand anime without the subtitles? There's a pretty big difference here.
The funny thing is, Gentoo 2004.1 will be out in about six hours :)
I think you'll find that other distributions have integrity too, but not the same aim. Most other distributions are designed to "work" rather than be "religiously pure".
Except that gentoo won't be using python for portage 3...
The third one had a really screwy control system which made me feel sick...
What's that smell? I detect the unpleasant stench of a rotting corpse being picked apart by maggots.
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If you're going to review an OS on an UltraSparc box, please pick anything other than the u5/10. The u5/10 is basically a PC clone with an ultrasparc processor. It has a pisspoor IDE chipset, a crippled CPU (IIi has far less cache than a II), a crippled PCI backplane, low memory bandwidth and a PC-like chipset. A far better measure of how well an OS has been ported is an Ultra 2.
:) )
(and yes, I do know what I'm talking about, and I have sparc-related code in the Linux kernel to prove it
Sparc and UltraSparc are both supported. You do, of course, need different CDs / netboot images.
Gentoo/Sparc project page
--usepkg, --fetchpkg
I smell a corpse.
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-mm kernels include fixes for the ht screwiness. Well, not fixes per se, but hacks that make the scheduler a bit smarter. Problem is, linux still sees a single HT CPU as two discrete CPUs, so there's a performance hit because of the way registers are handled.
Luc Besson is a one hit wonder.
Gentoo aren't including any new xfree releases (>4.3.99.902) until the licence is sorted out.
you're talking crap.
All those high-end non-x86 CPUs out there beg to differ.
I've reported at least a dozen of these and never once had any response. Has anyone ever had any luck from a daddypants email? I suspect they're devnulling it...