RedHat on Sun Equipment

[Bob Smith]

Get GNU make and tar as well.  The Solaris versions are not quite as 
robust or flexible as the GNU versions, and are a must for just about 
anything that you make with GCC.

-Bob

Willem van der Walt<willem at top.health.gov.za> wrote:

> Hi,
> I do not know the model, but does it not have a sparc processor?
> There is a redhat version for sparc, but one would have to do a 
> llittle more work.
> I think it is going to be easyer to just load the applications on the  
> Sun box and use Solaris on it.
> Once you have gcc going opn the Sun, you can get most things working 
> if it is open-source.
> Regards, Willem
>
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Ted Beaton wrote:
>
>> I've spent most of my time running Solaris on Sun equipment.  The 
>> past 6 months I've been working with RedHat on intel pc's (as 
>> "servers").  Management doesn't want to spend any money.  I've got an 
>> opportunity to pick up a Sun Enterprise 450 Workgroup server for very 
>> cheap money.  I would like to use it to replace a pc that has been 
>> pressed in to service as a "server" but we are running RedHat on it.  
>> I have a copy of Solaris that I could put on the 450 but the apps we 
>> have on the "pc server" are running on RedHat now.  I don't know if 
>> it would be a seamless transition to move them to Solaris. Will 
>> RedHat run on a Sun Enterprise 450 server without any special 
>> configuration?  Also, does anyone know if Sun's Solstice DiskSuite 
>> will run on RedHat.  It is a pretty good software RAID solution that 
>> I am already familiar with.  I'm sure there is another one out there 
>> somewhere but I'd rather not learn another right now.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Ted
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