[rescue] Illumos distributions?

[Jonathan Katz]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 3:38 PM Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
>
> So I have this X4540 Thor, running Solaris 11.3 that I can't upgrade
> in-place to Thor because Oracle won't make the patches available without
> an extortionately priced license.

I wonder if you can put SmartOS on it as an upgrade in-place? That may
be your best bet for the x64 HW.

> Also, I have a T5220 that I rescued without a specific plan for what to
> do with it.

Here you're stuck with Solaris, as OpenIndiana, OmniOS, NexentaStor,
and SmartOS are x64 only (IIRC, does anyone want to correct me?)

There are other distributions of OpenSolaris for Sparc out there, but
some haven't been touched since 2014 (OpenSXCE.) I played with
Tribblix and it's extremely rudimentary. Only one I haven't played
with is DiiOS.