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 Phaxx & atlas come to DCU to help make exim and mailman work. We also eat chinese.
-I (werdz) think it was around now (possibly Thursday or Friday) that I got ubuntu installed on murphy. Manually. After downgrading the firmware to version Poxy.ancient. The installer didn't seem to want to work at all (can't remember the exact list of problems), so it was installed using a rescue shell to create partitions, dpkg-bootstrap the system and install frivolous things like the kernel manually. Once this was done, Ubuntu booted, and things generally worked, but the serial console (well... what you got by typing console -f into the ALOM) randomly locked up. And some other things randomly broke. We decided this level of reliability wasn't what we were looking for in an OS. See [[Hardware:Murphy]] for the rest of this epic tale, and how it eventually ended up with Solaris 10, a full year later.
+I (werdz) think it was around now (possibly Thursday or Friday) that I got ubuntu installed on murphy. Manually. After downgrading the firmware to version Poxy.ancient. The installer didn't seem to want to work at all (can't remember the exact list of problems), so it was installed using a rescue shell to create partitions, dpkg-bootstrap the system and install frivolous things like the kernel manually. Once this was done, Ubuntu booted, and things generally worked, but the serial console (well... what you got by typing console -f into the ALOM) randomly locked up. And some other things randomly broke. We decided this level of reliability wasn't what we were looking for in an OS. See [[Murphy]] for the rest of this epic tale, and how it eventually ended up with Solaris 10, a full year later.
 === Thursday ===