read my last post again........
But today solaris is not released under gpl.
Fox
]]>It has a history associate with it that you can read about by searching google.
Originally called SUNos, and then renamed solaris for marketing...ack..dont ask me to try to recall what version is which...
this might be helpful for those adventurous among us: http://www.grokline.net/
or this: http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html#08
havent checked the above chart for accuracy, as far as i am able, but you get the idea..
what is solaris good for?
well, it is a mature os, well supported, if you can afford it, and developed to run on some very well designed and implemented hardware...
think hot swappable cpu's and memory....good stuff
I haven't really used it much, and honestly don't see it's place in the future being very bright. I think eventually the BSD's and Linux will win out over the proprietarily developed unicies (is that a word? lol)
Big companies will just start providing enterprise level support for a version of linux that they maintain internally (think Novell and their own SUSE distro)...
my 2 million cents
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]]>I said you were smart, didn't I?
Don't burn all your money at Cheers now.
LOL, sorry for the late reply. I'm back at home now... I actually drove by the cheers place. The one they use to model the set or whatever. Boston is an interesting place. I'm glad to be back at home now and using arch on my home pc. My 650mhz laptop got too much use the last month.
]]>I'm learning alot about solaris, mostly the fact that it's not much different then linux or freebsd. I like it in some aspects. I probably just like Sun's hardware actually. Which brings me to my next question, do you think there would be a way to run arch on a sparc machine? I think that would be great if you could. I know it would take alot of work. Probably recompiling all software and kernel for sparc.
]]>Nice done famavolat.
You are a smart guy, running a cool website even if there is not so many active posters!
The rednecks should be learning arch and the world would be a happy place.
lol! Thanks!
Yea, my website mainly consists of just friends chatting about random silly stuff.
Too bad most the time it's just a waste considering I get the hosting for free.
Darn rednecks!!! Get me outta here!!! :cry:
]]>dp wrote:... my opinion: linux is the future of any unix/*nix based OS
Shhhhhhhh, dont talk about linux and unix at the same time.
Stinky Cash Operation may hear you.
Remember, Gnu's not Unix!
hmm ... exactly because of this, i think these "unopen" *nixes will die out --- the only thing such companies can offer is professional support and apps that are only distributed as binary
why would anyone want to buy a unix, when you can download 99% of it for free?
i'm living after this:
"I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code than
10 minutes listening to Musak waiting for technical support which isn't."
(By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center)
Edit: Nice pic dp, havn't seen any of those in Sweden yet.
thanx - maybe in about a month they will come - here, today it was 34°C and extermely humid - horrible weather for a city where you are supposed to go to lectures instead of go swimming or something that has to do more with water :-)
]]>solaris for x86 is kinduv picky about hardware. good luck to you.
8)
Yea, it's kinda strange... Normally that nic just takes the tulip module. And on solaris most nics that can use tulip in linux use dnet in solaris. But for some odd reason I read that my nic takes another one called 'tu' which isn't supported because it conflicts with the native dnet driver.
WEEEEEEEE!
Oh yea, I found out that I made a 86% on my Solaris 8 quiz that I took. Interesting considering I have never touched it before. :idea:
]]>... my opinion: linux is the future of any unix/*nix based OS
Shhhhhhhh, dont talk about linux and unix at the same time.
Stinky Cash Operation may hear you.
Remember, Gnu's not Unix!
Edit: Nice pic dp, havn't seen any of those in Sweden yet.