Re: Sun Fire T2000 and PostgreSQL 8.1.3

Miguel wrote:
>
> Excuse me for this off topic, but i notice that you are very excited
> about the sun's hardware, what os do you install on them , slowlaris?,
> has that os improved in some espectacular way that i should take a look
> again?, i used it until solaris 9 and  the performance was horrible.
> im a happy freebsd user now (using hp and dell hardware  though)

I'm running Debian Sarge AMD64 on mine, and it works wonderfully. I'm
not a Solaris person, and I never plan on becoming one, but Sun's
Opteron hardware is quite nice. The remote management was one of the
features that sold me -- full control over power, etc. and
serial-over-LAN, through an SSH interface.

Sun don't support Debian officially (but we don't have a software
support contract anyway, so I'm not too fussed), but I'm pretty sure
they support at least SLES and RHEL.

Thanks
Leigh