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Ubuntu SPARC

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About UltraSPARC T1

• UltraSPARC T1 [http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/overview/ runs cool and is better for the planet]

• 60-Day Try and Buy Product Trials for the [http://www.sun.com/secure/servers/coolthreads/tnb/qualify.jsp?puuid=79ad78b9-961d-11d9-9adf-080020a9ed93 T1000] and [http://www.sun.com/secure/servers/coolthreads/tnb/qualify.jsp?puuid=41b7bc41-2581-11da-99bc-080020a9ed93 T2000]

• [http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/performance/ Sun Fire CoolThreads Performance Contest]

  • Up to Two CoolThreads Systems will be awarded to the winners chosen by the Sun judging panel per entry period for the remainder of the calendar year (2006).

Pointers on Ubuntu SPARC

• Ubuntu [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/sparc/TODO sparc/TODO]

• Ubuntu [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/sparc/KnownIssues sparc/KnownIssues]

• Get the ISO image: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/

• Check on the availability of packages: http://packages.ubuntu.com/

• Make sure you have universe and multiverse components enabled

  • [http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/components/ what's a component?]

  • Edit /etc/apt/sources.list so that you have the following uncommented:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted universe multiverse

Ubuntu SPARC Community

• Talk about Ubuntu SPARC

  • on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InternetRelayChat #ubuntu-server

  • in the [http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=134 64-bit Processor Users] forum

• Meet the [https://launchpad.net/people/sparc-port Ubuntu SPARC] team

Sun Java on Ubuntu

• Java for i386

  • https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/ubuntu.html

• Java for amd64

  • Same as above, but realize that the client programs are not yet available

  • Yes, this is a [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368467 well known issue]

• Java for sparc

  • hmm, that would be nice

About Me

• I am a member of Sun's [http://java.sun.com/performance Java Performance Group]

• I the technical lead for the [https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/developer.html DLJ] as part of the [https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net jdk-distros] project.

• Check out my [http://blogs.sun.com/tmarble blog]

• Here is my [https://launchpad.net/people/tmarble launchpad page]