# Sun + Ubuntu == good for Rails? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 10, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sun-ubuntu-good-for-rails/63030 "2006-06-10T21:44:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sun-ubuntu-good-for-rails/63030/1 "2006-06-10T21:44:16Z")
Hi, anyone have any experiences running Sun hardware (maybe a T1000 or 2000) with Ubuntu with Rails? Joe ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 6:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sun-ubuntu-good-for-rails/63030/2 "2006-06-11T06:32:27Z")
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 12:41:25PM -0700, Joe Van D. wrote: > anyone have any experiences running Sun hardware (maybe a T1000 or > 2000) with Ubuntu with Rails? Ubuntu with Rails is a good combo. Ubuntu with Sun hardware (X2[12]00 and X4200, at any rate) is pretty good, too. The T[12]000 are the Niagara-based systems, aren’t they? If so, they might be a bit finicky if there’s still bugs to be ironed out in the kernel or glibc, but apart from that they should work much like every other Ubuntu system – that is, pretty well. - Matt ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 7:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sun-ubuntu-good-for-rails/63030/3 "2006-06-11T07:42:47Z")
On Jun 10, 2006, at 9:25 PM, Matt P. wrote: > bugs to be ironed out in the kernel or glibc, but apart from that they > should work much like every other Ubuntu system – that is, pretty > well. Niagara’s are Sparc V9 binary compatible, so I’m not sure there will be any bugs to be ironed out. – – Tom M. ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 8:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sun-ubuntu-good-for-rails/63030/4 "2006-06-11T08:34:13Z")
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:42:20PM -0700, Tom M. wrote: > Niagara’s are Sparc V9 binary compatible, so I’m not sure there will > be any > bugs to be ironed out. I saw David S. Miller’s talk at LCA2006 on his work porting Linux to the Niagara. He’d spent over 6 months on it at that point, and that was back in January. Perhaps you could run sparc _binaries_ on the chip, but I doubt that the kernel is compatible (there’s a lot more to a CPU than what opcodes it uses, but typically only the kernel deals with them). Kernel bugs also tend to be the system-crashing sort, rather than app-crashing. - Matt ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sun-ubuntu-good-for-rails/63030/5 "2006-06-11T10:01:58Z")
On 11/06/06, Tom M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > systems, aren’t they? If so, they might be a bit finicky if > > there’s still > > bugs to be ironed out in the kernel or glibc, but apart from that they > > should work much like every other Ubuntu system – that is, pretty > > well. > > Niagara’s are Sparc V9 binary compatible, so I’m not sure there will > be any > bugs to be ironed out. The Niagara multicore stuff needs Sol 10 or better. Don’t know why you would’nt stick with Solaris on that hardware, there’s a lot of really good stuff in the recent Solaris Express builds (although Ubuntu is a decent Linux) and if you install pkg-get from [blastwave.org](http://blastwave.org) you’ll have rails up and running in about 2 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@joe-dumoulin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joe-dumoulin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sun-ubuntu-good-for-rails/63030/6 "2006-06-11T20:10:19Z")
Good point, Matthew. When I read your post, I saw glibc but didn’t notice that you had mentioned kernel, and didn’t consider the issue myself. – – Tom M.