[ale] OT: Solaris 9/x86

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Wed Nov 5 23:28:30 EST 2003


http://www.bolthole.com/ has some great resources for Solaris stuff,
including a pkg-get app, similar to Debian's apt-get app.  Pretty sweet
application.

Jonathan Glass

> We run a solaris9/X86 jumpstart server at work, it runs on most
> hardware. the only issue i have encountered that could not be fixed was
> with the intel GigE card due to a device name of 1000g (some services
> dont like numbers in the device name). and no, CDE is still in it and as
> ugly as ever. but you can download gnome 2.0 from sun.com for free.
> there is also a freeware site for solaris as well
> http://www.sunfreeware.com/ they have some opensource apps available for
> download.
>
>
> Drag0n
> dragon at atlantacon.org
>
> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 21:28, Christopher Fowler wrote:
>> I would like to purchase a standard cheap computer from Ginstar
>> to run Solaris 9 on.  Has anyone attempted to run Solaris 9 on x86?  My
>> biggest concern would be with video support.  Did they remove CDE?
>>
>> Chris
>>
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