Adam Vazquez Kb2Jpd wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 5:33 pm, steve wrote:
Has anyone installed solaris alongside 9.3? Any issues or comments?
Yes......why install it? ;)
Fred
Expect a daluge of email from Sun. I did and only after two months did the crap dwindle down.
Adam
They try the hard sell, I've even had a phone call from Sun. I installed Solaris 7 x86 many moons ago, then I had some memory that killed the motherboard, so with new motherboard and memory I couldn't get it to behave, it would boot from hard disk so far, then tell me it didn't know where to boot from .... RIP Solaris x86. In the phone call they asked if I tried Solaris 10 x86, told them I had no interest in doing so. I have the SPARC version installed, lots of GNU utils that make Solaris 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 (alias Gnome) is so slow, it's like trying to sprint on a treakle track. KDE is swift, but neither Gnome or KDE are what you would call integrated, they are just facades for the command line and don't give the funtionality available with gawd awful CDE. It's reckoned they hoped to get people running Linux on x86 to convert to Solaris 10, but are met 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 run Linux binaries on Solaris x86 has been dropped as customers' reactions mainly have been don't care. 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