From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 11 23:05:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0686F106568B for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:05:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90AD18FC08 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:05:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw6.york.ac.uk (mail-gw6.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.26]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id o0BN55rh018581; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:05:05 GMT Received: from ury.york.ac.uk ([144.32.108.81]) by mail-gw6.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1NUTJp-00075a-2E; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:05:05 +0000 Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (localhost.york.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0BN54FZ038434; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:05:04 GMT (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id o0BN54RQ038431; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:05:04 GMT (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:05:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson X-X-Sender: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk To: Sam Wun In-Reply-To: <736c47cb1001102049v71757b78oe954fd39f9d03118@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <736c47cb1001102049v71757b78oe954fd39f9d03118@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd for Sun Fire X4250 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:05:11 -0000 On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Sam Wun wrote: > This server is built with Xeon cpu processor, Intel based. > Can FreeBSD 8+ fully compatible with this server like those ordinary > Intel i386 machine? Although it's hard to say (the Sun website doesn't realy give enough spec details), I'd be surprised if it doesn't work. FreeBSD runs very nicely on every Intel- and amd64-based Sun machine I've tried it on. You'll almost certainly want to use the FreeBSD amd64 release rather than i386, and I'd probably recommend 8.0-RELEASE, although 7.2 should work fine. By the way, this is the wrong list for questions like this: if you have any others, you're probably best off directing them to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Gavin