New Sun Ultra 20 (Opteron):Think Gentoo would work well OTB?

cayenne · l33t Joined: 16 Oct 2002 Posts: 774 Location: New Orleans

Hello all,

Was just browsing around the Sun website, and read about the Ultra 20 workstation they're starting out at a base or $895. They will put Solaris, RH or SUSE on....

What would be your guess that Gentoo would install and work on it pretty easily?

I think this box came out awhile back..with a higher price tag...has anyone worked with this box before? Look like it could be a pretty decent workstation...I'd prefer to have Gentoo on it as that is what I'm most used to...

TIA,

cayenne
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Corona688 · Veteran Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 1113

I'd be concerned about Sun bios weirdness. You'd think gentoo would work on anything redhat would work on, but I wonder if the boot process is any different from standard x86.
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cantbeunique · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2005 Posts: 3

Well, Im running AMD64 Gentoo right now on a w1100z java workstation, which I can honestly say was a snap to set up. No hardware detection issues at all; ethernet, firewall, syslog, cron, alsa, nvidia graphics driver all no problem. Mplayer, amule, gnome-light, enlightenment DR-16 and (as well as a testing DR-17) all, ok too. Hell, I've even got a Nova-T card and freevo running. Bios hasn't been an issue, and I've flashed it once to upgrade it to E4 stepping.

The only problem I've had is that I can't get the damn thing to sleep correctly, but Im not sure whether that is a Sun or an AMD64 issue. Overall, though, its really been a quality system. Well put together and solid.

crazycat · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 7:29 am Post subject:

There is a v40 review on Anandtech and there is a screenshot where you can see that this workstation uses Phoenix server bios v3 release 6.0 , so you might search if this type of bios works with linux.
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fleabag · n00b Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 8

I have Gentoo working fine on a v20z (I assume that this is what you mean?). Absolutely no install issues at all, and rock solid. 2 x Opteron 248 / 4 Gb RAM. Very fast.

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