Trying Out & Failing With OpenIndiana, Solaris 11.3 On The Broadwell-EP System

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Trying Out & Failing With OpenIndiana, Solaris 11.3 On The Broadwell-EP System

After testing seven Linux distributions and eight BSDs on the new Xeon E5-2609 v4 Broadwell-EP + MSI X99A WORKSTATION system, I next decided to try getting some fresh Solaris-based results...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Solaris-OI-Broadwell-Attempt

[dungeon]

I guees you will have better luck even with MenuetOS, they gained support for 32 GB of RAM today

[Beherit]

Very ambitious project, I'll give you that.

[Kano]

Maybe you could try a simpler radeon card from the r500 or r300 area for installation and install Nvidia drivers later. The last time i used SunOS was with SPARC workstations or SunRay clients. At that time CDE was the most polished desktop... Would be cool to get Debian packages for CDE.

[Guest]

That's funny slowlaris fears benchmarks. But hey, it doesn't work, so it's the most significant benchmark out there! You can be sued! /irony

[jacob]

That's funny slowlaris fears benchmarks. But hey, it doesn't work, so it's the most significant benchmark out there! You can be sued! /irony

Slowlaris is by no means alone in that. I don't know if it's still the case but the EULA of Microsoft SQL also banned the publication of any benchmark. It really baffles me how their brains work: they apparently believe that I, for instance, would buy a product without any possibility to verify objective results, and instead blindly trust whatever Microsoft or Oracle claim, all while simultaneously agreeing to an EULA that expressly releases them from any warranty. Yeah, that sounds likely. Not.

[jollyd]

Did you contact illumos developers or report the issue on the tracker?

https://www.illumos.org/projects/illumos-gate/issues

Since the issue is common to both illumos and Solaris, it is likely that very few (if nobody) have hit this issue before.
You would certainly be able to provide debugging info with mdb.

Last year I tried to install Debian on my aging ThinkStation D20 and the install could not complete due to a bug in the SAS controller present with several install ISOs (3 at least): I did not write a post about it, bugs happen

Also please, do not use experimental OpenIndiana ISOs that were created for developers to test new packages and drivers for your benchmarks....

[Guest]

Since the issue is common to both illumos and Solaris, it is likely that very few (if nobody) have hit this issue before.
You would certainly be able to provide debugging info with mdb.

It's also likely that very few users are using slowlaris and this could explain why nobody reported it before.

Last year I tried to install Debian on my aging ThinkStation D20 and the install could not complete due to a bug in the SAS controller present with several install ISOs (3 at least): I did not write a post about it, bugs happen

It's not about running it on ancient hardware and you could always use different Linux distribution. In above case you're limited to illumos or proprietary crap like slowlaris.

[Guest]

Slowlaris is by no means alone in that. I don't know if it's still the case but the EULA of Microsoft SQL also banned the publication of any benchmark. It really baffles me how their brains work: they apparently believe that I, for instance, would buy a product without any possibility to verify objective results, and instead blindly trust whatever Microsoft or Oracle claim, all while simultaneously agreeing to an EULA that expressly releases them from any warranty. Yeah, that sounds likely. Not.

My theory is ms and oracle pays its users for using their products. There's no other explanation imho.

[starshipeleven]

Last year I tried to install Debian on my aging ThinkStation D20 and the install could not complete due to a bug in the SAS controller present with several install ISOs (3 at least): I did not write a post about it, bugs happen

Saying "I had a crippling bug" without linking a bug report makes your claim invalid.

Remember kids, always take time to file bug reports as upstream as possible (i.e. not in your distro's bugtracker unless it is a software they develop), so the developers of the software see it.