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Sun Fire T2000 goin’ back to cali

May 25, 2006 on 12:15 pm | In General Nonsense | Write a Comment

I boxed up the T2000 and dropped it off at my convenient 24-hour Fedex Kinko’s last night. It’s a shame it had to go back just as I was getting time to play with it. Maybe I’ll test something else soon.. perhaps something more appropriate, like a x4100.

In the meantime, I’m going to try to learn more about Solaris. One of the problems I had with testing this machine properly was that my (gobs of) Linux experience really didn’t apply directly like I hoped. The last time I really played with Solaris was back in the 2.x days c.1996. Things have changed quite a bit.

In the last week I had the Sun Fire, I did get to try installing Gentoo Linux on it. OH MY. Thanks go to David S. Miller for his work on the kernel and Gustavo for the Gentoo LiveCD. I built a vanilla 2.6.17 kernel and modules in about 4 minutes. The rest of the stage 3 install went on in just a couple of hours. Most of the delay was my relatively slow 768K DSL connection, pulling down source. The T2000 with a cross-compiler would’ve made a REALLY sweet distcc host!

Pretty, but it’s whats inside that counts.

Whenever you can type “make -j17″ without distcc, it’s a beautiful thing. If I had more time with the box I would’ve done more measuring around this.