Damon Register wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote:
They try the hard sell, I've even had a phone call from Sun. I installed
I am not suprised. Even my wife who hasn't heard of Solaris, knows who Sun is because she reads Wall Street Journal. She recently said that she read that Sun is very hard sell.
I am tempted to go for a Sun offer http://www.sun.com/emrkt/freeopteronworkstation/?cid6179 Why? We use Solaris a lot at work and I thought it would be fun to get a Sun computer at home to play with on my own. I see that "Runs Solaris, Linux and Windows" so I could play with multiple systems together which seems to be what the original post asked.
I have the luxury here at home to have an Ultra5 available.
where to boot from .... RIP Solaris x86. In the phone call they asked if
I guess I had better luck than you did. That was back at Solaris 7 when it was less hardware savvy. Until the PC broke, it ran OK, but it didn't like being moved to a new motherboard with all other bits the same.
Perhaps having a coworker who
is a Solaris admin and likes donuts helps. I first tried Solaris 9 on an old Gateway PC with a 200 MHz Pentium. I was amazed that it seemed noticeably faster than the same PC with SuSE 9.1. For fun I installed Solaris 10 on an IBM at work because I got tired of Exceed crashing when I connected to our Sun net. Solaris 10 has been nice here. The only problem I am having is at home where I installed Solaris 10 on an Asus system with AMD64. It installed but I had to get a lot of help from the admin coworker to get the net working. It seems that ethernet chipset is known for its problems with Solaris.
I've installed, admin'd, upgraded, supported and fixed more Solaris boxes than I'd care to remember, right up to E10K's and Fujitsu Primepower 2500's, I know my way around, but I couldn't get that PC going again, perhaps it would have been easier with Sol9/10.
10 look modern. Previously Sun steered clear of even mentioning KDE and still don't mention it, but it's there. Their so-called Java Desktop
Where?
I installed back in May and at login, KDE could be selected. On the earlier install parts of KDE were there and it was very cumbesome to get it to work, had to mess with symlinks etc. I also find under other than CDE, you have to do "init 0" in order to do a shutdown.
by customers asking why they would want to run Solaris on x86 when there is Linux and most of their x86 corporate sales are Linux. The ability to
For me where I work this has been good. Our company is really chicken about using Linux. Last year in response to the SCO case, they came out with a new anti-linux policy. I can install Solaris and do the things I need to do
Damon Register
That's companies for you, yet others have installed Linux on their mainframes without help from IBM/Amdahl/Fujitsu. When our salesperson got a mainframe upgrade order from the Royal Air force so they could expand their Linux use, she was shocked, so I pointed her to the SuSE site so she could see exactly what they were doing with Linux. Regards Sid. == -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks