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7. Sun's Enterprise servers

GNU/Linux is known to run on the following systems:

SBUS based servers
- Enterprise 1
- Enterprise 2
- Enterprise 150
- Enterprise 3000
- Enterprise 3500
- Enterprise 4000
- Enterprise 4500
- Enterprise 5000
- Enterprise 6000
- Enterprise 6500
- 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: http://people.debian.org/~fabbione/e10k/debian_on_e10k.txt
As far as I know, Linux on these systems have been tested with up to 24 CPUs
PCI based servers
- Enterprise 250
- Enterprise 450

One of the locations installation kernel images can be downloaded from is

http://sunsite.ulatina.ac.cr/Unix/Linux/Splack/
sparc/splack-8.0/kernels/sun4u.s

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