[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

[Jacob Ritorto]

Wow.  I just put OpenBSD on this thing and it runs like a pup.  I'm really
impressed.  Is anyone besides Peter working on cruft-cutting and minimal
system distribution of Illumos?  If things can be this awesome on 1998
hardware, we really should aspire to this level of KISS, tidiness and
performance in Illumos.

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us> wrote:

>
>
> On 02/ 1/15 01:50 PM, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>
>> Jerry Kemp wrote:
>>
>>> You have taken it a lot further than I would have.
>>>
>>> For an Ultra 5 or 10, I probably would not have gone past Solaris 10,
>>> and due
>>> to your ram being well under 4 Gb, I would stay on UFS vs ZFS.
>>>
>>> When you say "Solaris 11 install" in reference to this box, do you mean
>>> an
>>> install of Sun OpenSolaris?
>>>
>>
>> snv_65 is an early development build of Solaris 11 - actually more like
>> Solaris
>> 10 than even the earliest Solaris 11 releases.
>>
>>
> yep.  Missed that part, and saw it less than 10 minutes after hitting the
> send button.   Sun OpenSolaris Nevada build 65.
>
> But I still stick by my comments concerning the system RAM.  If the OP is
> committed to this box, now is probably a great time to max out the memory.
> Especially if he wants to move forward beyond OpenSolaris Nevada build 65.
>
> Jerry
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