This is just a chronological listing of all my postings concerning my experiences with the Sunfire T2000 Coolthreads I was able to test-drive through Sun's Try&Buy program. [[http://gallery.whocares.de:80/v/CoolFire/|Picture Gallery]] [[http://whocares.de/2006/03/21/sgas-stefans-got-a-sun-preface/|21.03.2006 Stefan's got a Sun]] (Preface)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/03/22/sunny-days-day-1/|22.03.2006 Sunny Days 1]] (Cennecting to the serial console)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/03/23/sunny-days-day-2/|23.03.2006 Sunny Days 2]] (Adding users to the system)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/03/24/sunny-days-day-3/|24.03.2006 Sunny Days 3]] (installing Apache & MySQL)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/03/25/sunny-days-day-4/|25.03.2006 Sunny Days 4]] ($PATH manipulation, home dir changes, Blastwave tools, Solaris update)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/03/26/sunny-days-day-5/|26.03.2006 Sunny Days 5]] (installing PHP with MySQL5 support)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/03/27/sunny-days-day-6/|27.03.2006 Sunny Days 6]] (a little benchmark compiling PHP) Results: [[http://whocares.de/files/PHP_Test_T2000.xls.tar.bz2|Excel]] / [[http://whocares.de/files/PHP_Test_T2000.ods.tar.bz2|ODS]]\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/04/02/sunny-days-day-7/|02.04.2006 Sunny Days 7]] (streaming music from the Sun to iTunes)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/04/03/sunny-days-day-8/|03.04.2006 Sunny Days 8]] (some NFS stuff Linux <-> Solaris)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/04/09/sunny-days-day-9/|09.04.2006 Sunny Days 9]] (Apache Benchmarks)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/04/28/sunny-days-day-10/|28.04.2006 Sunny Days 10]] (Apache Benchmarks using Zend Optimizer)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/05/05/sunny-days-day-11/|05.05.2006 Sunny Days 11]] (MySQL Benchmarks)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/05/26/solaris-10-fixup-for-libstdcla-is-not-a-valid-libtool-archive/|25.05.2006 - Solaris 10 Fixup ]] (Fix for libstdc++.la is not a valid libtool archive)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/06/05/sunny-days-12-compiling-made-easy/|05.06.2006 Sunny Days 12]] (Compiling made easy using CRLE)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/07/27/sunny-days-13-tweaking-the-sun/|27.07.2006 Sunny Days 13]] (Tweaking the Sun)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/07/30/sunny-days-14-fix-for-sun-studio-11-sparc-non-gui-install-problem/|30.07.2006 Sunny Days 14]] (Sun Studio 11 non-GUI install fixup)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/08/13/sunny-days-15-disabling-the-login-server/|13.08.2006 Sunny Days 15]] (Disabling the Login Server)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/08/15/sunny-days-16-64-bits-the-dark-side/|15.08.2006 Sunny Days 16]] (64 Bits: The Dark Side)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2006/08/18/compiling-apache-worker-on-solaris-10-u2-aka-0606/|17.08.2006 Sunny Days 17]] (Compiling Apache (worker) on Solaris 10u2)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2007/04/06/screen-402-for-solaris-10sparc/|13.04.2007 Sunny Days 18]] (Screen 4.0.2 for Solaris 10/Sparc)\\ [[http://whocares.de/2007/04/15/running-cooltuner-on-localized-solaris/|15.04.2007 Sunny Days 19]] Running Cooltuner on localized Solaris\\ === Some links I found to be helpful while evaluating the T2000 === General Documentation:\\ [[http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Servers/coolthreads/t2000/index.html|Sun Fire T2000 Server Documentation]]\\ [[http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/solaris.10#hic|Solaris 10 Documentation]]\\ Tunable Parameters\\ [[http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0404|Tunable Parameters Reference Manual]]\\ [[http://www.sean.de/Solaris/soltune.html|Jens-S. Vöcklers Solaris tuning site]] Some general hints on setting up Solaris 10:\\ [[http://techdir.rutgers.edu/sol10.html|Setting up Solaris 10]] Building your own Patch Cable:\\ [[http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Unix/Solaris/SOLARIS_UsingSerialConsoles.shtml|Serial Consoles for Sun machines]]\\ [[http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/network/cable/cable5.htm|EIA568 RJ45 pin layout and color codes]]\\ [[http://hardwarebook.net/cable/serial/ciscoconsole9.html|Cisco console pin layout]] Setting up Apache & MySQL\\ [[http://meljr.com/~meljr/apache2_Sol10.html|Activating Apache2 on Solaris 10]]\\ [[http://meljr.com/~meljr/mysql_Sol10.html|Activating MySQL on Solaris 10]] Setting up PHP:\\ [[http://meljr.com/~meljr/PHPSolaris10.html|PHP for Apache2 on Solaris 10]] The Blastwave repository for ready-to-run GNU and OSS tools\\ [[http://www.blastwave.org BlastWave|Homepage]]\\ [[http://www.blastwave.org/howto.html|Pkg-Get installation instructions]]\\ [[http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php|Blastwave package repository]] Installing [[http://www.mt-daapd.org|mt-daapd]]\\ [[http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/constantin?entry=solaris_home_part_4_streaming|Constantin Gonzales' descriptions]] Testing [[http://www.mysql.com|MySQL]]\\ [[http://vegan.net/tony/supersmack/|Super Smack 1.3]]