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I have a couple (well a lot more than that..but for the sake of the brevity.) of sun enterprise 250 servers with solaris installed on them. I want to know if any version/flavor/distro of linux can be installed on it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Enterprise
I've heard from some folks that its impossible, But I wondered if there were some kinda trick or kernel recompilation that would allow me to install and run Linux on sun hardware.
You might be able to get Fedora working on it. spot can probably give you more details.
E250's are sun4u so you have a chance of getting Debian running on them. Have a look at the Debian sparc page.
There is also some information in SUN/Oracles's UltraLinux pages.
You can definitely get at least some version of debian running on them. Alternatively, you could try FreeBSD or netBSD which may be more current.
