Sparc also provides a console port which makes headless operations easier.
Sean brian m. carlson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:18:26PM -0700, John Bevins wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I don't know much about Sun boxes. What advantage, if any, is there >> to running Debian on a Sun box as opposed to a brand name x86 server? > > It makes exploiting the machine harder. Normally, an attacker will try > to exploit buffer overflows using i386 shellcode. If the service is > vulnerable, it will probably crash (instead of arbitrary code being > run), since i386 shellcode doesn't work on sparc. Note that if an > attacker really wants to break in, the differing architecture will > probably not matter; he or she will simply use sparc shellcode. But > script kiddies randomly searching for a machine to break into will > probably not bother. > > If you really care about accurate floating-point operations, sparc has > support for float, double, and (in the 64-bit versions) long double. On > i386 machines, by default, all floating-point operations are performed > in long double mode, so some results are less accurate than they might > otherwise be. amd64 does not have the problems of i386 in this case. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
