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<H2><A NAME="s7">7. Sun's Enterprise servers</A></H2>

<P>GNU/Linux is known to run on the following systems:
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<LI>SBUS based servers
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<LI>Enterprise 1</LI>
<LI>Enterprise 2</LI>
<LI>Enterprise 150</LI>
<LI>Enterprise 3000</LI>
<LI>Enterprise 3500</LI>
<LI>Enterprise 4000</LI>
<LI>Enterprise 4500</LI>
<LI>Enterprise 5000</LI>
<LI>Enterprise 6000</LI>
<LI>Enterprise 6500</LI>
<LI>Enterprise 10000 (up to 64 CPUs can be fitted in this server. 
It is nicknamed StarFire).
More information about running a 2.6.x GNU/Linux kernel on an E10k can be found
on this page:
<A HREF="http://people.debian.org/~fabbione/e10k/debian_on_e10k.txt">http://people.debian.org/~fabbione/e10k/debian_on_e10k.txt</A>
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As far as I know, Linux on these systems have been tested with up to 24 CPUs
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<LI>PCI based servers
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<LI>Enterprise 250</LI>
<LI>Enterprise 450</LI>
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One of the locations installation kernel images can be downloaded from 
is
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http://sunsite.ulatina.ac.cr/Unix/Linux/Splack/
sparc/splack-8.0/kernels/sun4u.s
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