Re: Solaris
Seth Goldberg (seth@home.com)
Fri, 10 Oct 1997 01:58:20 -0700
At 09:32 PM 10/9/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Letting the chips fall where they may, I quote Thomas Pornin:
>>In article <199710021742.UAA03482@runner.dntis.ro> you write:
>>>Is there any kind of solaris for x86? I'd like to find out where to get
>>>the kit if there's any.
>>
>>Yes, there is one. I once (tried to) install it and it really looks like
>>a piece of junk. Thinking about it is just a bad idea. If you really want
>>to try it, you may buy it from Sun microsystems.
>
>Sun should stick with Sparc hardware... they are the only ones who fully
>understand it (it was their aliens that designed that stuff.) Solaris x86
>is just a mistake. It's hard to maintain, and should anything ever happen
>to it, well, do you have another machine? To do practically anything to
>the machine requires the machine to be plugged into another machine.
>
These responses and comments are based on Solarsi 2.5 and 2.5.1, right?
2.6 is much improved and they are getting much better as time goes on.
It's a relatively young OS and they have only really been getting serious
on it in the past 2 years, so give 'em some time. Remember when Linux was
a baby? :)
-Seth