Re: [tlug] Linux on Sun Fire X4600

["Neil Millar" <nmillar@example.com>]

On 28/06/07, Marcelo Martins <mhtmartins@example.com> wrote:
> As for RHEL and Suse, according to my superior, it'd be better if we
> skipped them in order to save some money (license? support? No idea,
> never touched RHEL). As for me, I don't have anything against these
> distros. Actually, I'd feel more relieved if they spent a couple of
> yens on one of them.

If you are interested in Linux but don't want to pay then you could
use a free version and should get the same results. Redhat [1] and
SUSE [2] have both certified this machine so CentOS (RHEL rebuild)
and opensuse should be happy on it. The sas disks are the only
slightly unusual things according to the driver list.

We run a 16 core machine on the same image as 2 core machines
and don't need to do anything special for things like the extra
processors, etc.

In saying that I would make sure your boss understands the
potential consequences of his penny pinching, i.e. "It doesn't
work, I can't fix it, you didn't buy any support, we're screwed" :D

[1] http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4600/os.jsp
[2] http://developer.novell.com/yes/88908.htm

Neil.