Hardware - Sun workstation Ultra 20 and others

[Ivan Voras]

2008/4/11 Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au>:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:57:53PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
>  >Does anyone have experience with running Sun's Opteron-based
>  >workstation, Ultra 20, 25, 40? Both with FreeBSD and other systems
>  >(Linux)? Are they stable, all the drivers are present, etc?
>
>  I've not used any of these but:
>  1) The Ultra 25 is UltraSPARC IIIi based.  This CPU is not supported
>    by FreeBSD as Sun will not release necessary documentation.

Thanks, then it was included by mistake - I'm not interested in
SPARC-based variants.

>  2) Sun states they support both RHEL and SuSE ES on both the U20 and
>    U40 so I would expect they are stable and all hardware supported,
>    at least on those Linuxes.

Ok.