FreeBSD now both boots and survives a complete ‘make buildworld’ on the Sun Niagara UltraSPARC T1 CPU. “I’m proud to announce that FreeBSD on the T1 is now stable enough that it can ‘make buildworld’ natively. The source is currently available in perforce under the view //depot/projects/kmacy_sun4v/… I probably won’t roll it back into CVS until the logical domaining support is done. I’m looking forward to receiving input from individuals who plan to deploy it to find out what workloads to target in performance tuning.”
So soon-ish it will be possible to compare performances of FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris on this new and exciting platform. I wonder how is the more portable NetBSD coming along for the T1.
It has been a very long time since a computer/CPU had attracted this much tech mindshare.
What are you on buddy? The T1 isn’t getting a third the attention that AMD64 got, three minor operating systems is not a huge deal – talk about mindshare when Windows is running on it.
The fact that it isn’t getting as much attention as AMD64 got doesn’t make it a bad platform for servers / workstations, neither does the fact that Windows doesn’t support it.
Btw., these three minor operating systems are often used as servers and Linux is getting popular as a render farm OS (well, at least Pixar seems to like it).
I’m thrill to see FreeBSD is stable on the T1. Now the companies that don’t want to run linux for security and stablity risks, that can be caused by the buggy linux kernel, can now assure that their is another OSS OS to choose from.
Here! Here!
Cool breeze, tasty waves and a BSD box. What else does a fella need?
True. Choice is always good.
But given that the FreeBSD kernel isn’t really shown
to be any less buggy or insecure than Linux, all else
being equal it would probably not be a popular choice
due to FreeBSD’s relatively poor scalability.
Though perhaps its scalability will be slightly better
if it doesn’t have to go to the interconnect for
synchronisation as with more traditional multiprocessors.
Will be interesting to see how it goes…
Given that FreeBSD kernel isnt really shown to be less buggy or insecure than Linux? Where are you getting your information from? Can you show some statistics?
FreeBSD’s relatively poor scalability? I have never heard of that. FreeBSD delivers high quality code that has optimizations everwhere in the kernel to libraries to userland apps subsequently it scales really well on SMPs as well as distributed grids.
Give us some references please.
Given that FreeBSD kernel isnt really shown to be less buggy or insecure than Linux? Where are you getting your information from? Can you show some statistics?
Umm, I said it wasn’t *shown* to be less buggy or
insecure. I say that because I _haven’t_ ever seen
stats from anybody claiming that it is more secure.
FreeBSD’s relatively poor scalability? I have never heard of that.
I thought it was pretty common knowledge among anyone
who follows FreeBSD development.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=114798161600002&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=114416927400001&r=1&w=2
http://bsd.ee/~hadara/debug/mysql4/stats.html
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-smp&m=113931597201939&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-smp&m=113706179610914&w=2
FreeBSD delivers high quality code that has optimizations everwhere in the kernel to libraries to userland apps subsequently it scales really well on SMPs as well as distributed grids.
OK, from what I have seen, that is untrue. So can you
now give me some references, please?
Edited 2006-05-23 00:01
Security and stability risks are present on every platform and in every piece of software. As person interested in the tech world (if not what are you doing on osnews.com?), you should know that there is no such thing as perfect security and stability. If I used the FreeBSD platform, I am sure there are tons ways to make potentially unstable applications crash prones.
While I value choice on any platform, I don’t support the way present these choices. “Linux sux0r! l337 ppl uz Fr33B$D!” And of course, like any good fanboy, you failed to point out what made linux so peculiarly ustable, insecure and buggy. Maybe it’s because Linux has had Java support for so long, damn imagine the poor Linux desktop users.
Here’s a link to the dmesg http://www.fsmware.com/sun4v/dmesg_latest.txt
This is a good start for people getting used to writing for an open chip kernal. I wonder if a benefit chart could be created.