On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Rainer Duffner rainer@ultra-secure.de wrote:
Am 21.09.2008 um 22:59 schrieb Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux:
Hi all,
I just received a SunFire 880 machine and would like to install CentOS on it I think it is possible but should be very interested on advices and tips & tricks on how to do it the best way... Thanks for your help...
Does CentOS actually exist for SPARC?
You can (and should) install Solaris on it. (Trying to go with CenOS on this box is bordering the bizarre, IMO). What specs does your V880 have?
I'm always puzzled why people would go to great lengths just to install _favorite_OS on some hardware that is otherwise fully supported by _native_OS.
Well having spent a week on Solaris 10.. I can understand why. Most of the tools I am used to getting in a base install of CentOS are not there.. and I will be spending most of this week getting various tools installed so that the programmers do not need to have a crazy chain of if/else logic to deal with OS of the week.
In the end, the need for diversity of Unix's is good to see what ideas are better in the long run, but when it makes development slower... it becomes a drag that causes the out-liers to be tossed :/. So in those cases you end up replacing Solaris with Linux or some other OS that you are familiar with.