John Scott wrote:
On 7/13/05, steve
wrote: Has anyone installed solaris alongside 9.3? Any issues or comments?
Cheers, Steve.
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Installed it to see if Sun kept their promise about it performing better thatn previous versions on x86. It was good, not a slug like say Solaris 7 x86. BTW, it's a 2GHz Pentium with a gig of RAM. Getting the nVidia card in the system to work was a bit of a chore, but not bad. I'll move my Sun boxes to it eventually when I have the time so my Sun Ray users can get the new interface and I can get containers. Sun hasn't been pushing hard on us, but we already use their stuff. The version of KDE that is available on the companion CDs is 3.1 and that sticks when compared to what KDE has out now. Given that I can do almost everything that my Sun boxes do on x86 and x64, I think I'll stick with Linux on these platforms and leave Solaris on the Sparcs.
John
KDE and Sun Java Desktop (alias Gnome) are mere facades. I agree, Solaris on SPARC and Linux on x86/x86_64, though I've been tempted to install Linux on SPARC dual booting (from the OK prompt) with Solaris 10. Way back at RedHat 6.x I installed Linux on a E3500 for a mailserver and it worked well. I've never found either hardware or software from Sun looking like the finished article, but they make great overtime earners compared to mainframes, much to my delight. 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