MartUX: OpenIndiana Reviving Sun SPARC Hardware

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MartUX: OpenIndiana Reviving Sun SPARC Hardware

MartUX is a new OpenIndiana/Illumos-based Solaris distribution for reviving SPARC hardware support...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NDY

[toguro123]

This is great! Now old SPARC CPU users will be able to use a modern Solaris system with SunOS 5.11. Now we are not stuck with Solaris 10 anymore.

[cb88]

Why are the ram requirements so freakishly high? :/ especially on solaris versions 9+

Java shoudln't be that inefficient. In any case I have a U1E and Blade 100 neither of which have enough ram to run it at the moment :/

[jadrevenge]

Why are the ram requirements so freakishly high? :/ especially on solaris versions 9+

Java shoudln't be that inefficient. In any case I have a U1E and Blade 100 neither of which have enough ram to run it at the moment :/

Java isn't the issue, in fact you can pretty much run the system without it (Don't get confused by the "Java Desktop" which is just a rebranded Gnome, nothing to do with Java, just made by "Sun") ...

ZFS is the issue, it's a huge memory hog ... but you kinda have to expect that from the advantages that you get from it.

There are screenshots though that show it running on a 1Gb machine ... might still be worth a go on your old hardware.

[CARMEN]

Yeah, Java should not be the issue. You can try to figure out the problem of ZFS

[allison]

What exactly is ZFS?