On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:59:07PM +0800, Ian C. Sison wrote: > > well, for one, the hardware vendors know the intricacies of their gear and > > can tune their flavor of Unix for it. > > Not really. The E450 uses standard PCI, 64Bit even. It uses NCR-SYMBIOS > SCSI, and standard SCSI drives. Not much to tweak there. You can stick in > most 3com adapters also. About the only thing SUN native is the VGA > adapter. In fact i was so surprised that when i initiated a shutdown on > the SPARC, it actually powered down! That's more than i can say for some > PCs with differing APM bios version incompatible with the linux drivers..
I spoke too soon, /. points me to this page on sourceforge about 'Atlas': http://foundries.sourceforge.net/large/index.pl?node_id=38707&lastnode_id=131 SourceForge.net's Linux on Large Systems Foundry brings together many projects dedicated to improving support for Linux on large, multiprocessor systems. Participating projects draw in developers from large corporations, from academic research groups, from independent industry groups like the Open Source Development Lab, to independent Open Source developers. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
