3 Apr
2013
3 Apr
'13
7:03 a.m.
On 3 April 2013 10:08, R SMALLWOOD <rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote:
Its funny you should mention Solaris. In addition to
my main DEC collection I have a few Sun systems including a nice E3000 server.
I have a kosher original SUN copy of Solaris 9 .
You can get Solaris 10 but its on DVD iso images and the E3000 only has a CD and I would
need a SCSI DVD to load it.
Could you not install it over the network? That's how I got Red Hat
4.2 onto my SPARCstation IPX back in the 1990s.
Oracle have now made Oracle Linux (PC version)
downloadable for free.
I did it and it works just fine.
There's a promise of Oracle Linux for Sparc and that would really bring the SUN
systems to life.
Oracle Linux is basically CentOS with the name changed. CentOS is Reh
Hat Enterprise Linux recompiled from the sources that RH publish.
Scientific Linux is the same.
Oracle Linux is primarily an effort by Oracle to stab Red Hat in the
back. Hidebound corporates who would not touch a Free OS such as
CentOS are reassured by the Oracle name and the support contracts.
So if either CentOS or Scientific Linux are available on SPARC, just
use them. No point waiting for Oracle & no reason to use Oracle's
version.
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