Re: [time-nuts] Sun Blade 100 as GPS-controlled NTP server

2008-03-17 Thread Magne Mæhre
Robert Vassar wrote: Solaris has some pretty useful timing/timekeeping API's. You might want to consider OpenSolaris, it's not quite BSD free, but the CDDL is OSI approved. For some reason or another, Sun continues to use a 3.x derived NTP daemon. I know the maintainer. It's been a

Re: [time-nuts] Sun Blade 100 as GPS-controlled NTP server

2008-03-17 Thread Robert Vassar
On Mar 17, 2008, at 1:27 AM, Magne Mæhre wrote: Robert Vassar wrote: Solaris has some pretty useful timing/timekeeping API's. You might want to consider OpenSolaris, it's not quite BSD free, but the CDDL is OSI approved. For some reason or another, Sun continues to use a 3.x derived NTP

Re: [time-nuts] Sun Blade 100 as GPS-controlled NTP server

2008-03-16 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first choice is my Sun Blade 100 as it is small, quiet, doesn't use... last time I looked at a dmesg from one of those, it looked just like my old hp laptop... but an ultrasparc cpu. unless OpenBSD happens to have

Re: [time-nuts] Sun Blade 100 as GPS-controlled NTP server

2008-03-16 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth Chris Kuethe at 2008-03-16 19:25... if nothing else, can we get you to try it for a week and document just how awful it is? (more than 5000ppm?) OK, I'll do it. Won't hurt to wipe that machine down anyway - it can do its current duties just as well with BSD as it can with Solaris.

Re: [time-nuts] Sun Blade 100 as GPS-controlled NTP server

2008-03-16 Thread Robert Vassar
Solaris has some pretty useful timing/timekeeping API's. You might want to consider OpenSolaris, it's not quite BSD free, but the CDDL is OSI approved. For some reason or another, Sun continues to use a 3.x derived NTP daemon. I know the maintainer. It's been a few years since I

Re: [time-nuts] Sun Blade 100 as GPS-controlled NTP server (Matthew Smith)

2008-03-16 Thread christopher hoover
Matthew Smith wrote: I have shelved the idea of building my time server with a single board PC for the time being - putting together a case, PSU, etc., and doing an install with no monitor (would have to make an adapter) is just too much like hard work. You can buy an assembled SBC in one

[time-nuts] Sun Blade 100 as GPS-controlled NTP server

2008-03-15 Thread Matthew Smith
Hi Folks I have shelved the idea of building my time server with a single board PC for the time being - putting together a case, PSU, etc., and doing an install with no monitor (would have to make an adapter) is just too much like hard work. I have a choice of a couple of Ultrasparc boxes