On 04/03/2013 05:08 AM, R SMALLWOOD 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.
This is OH so very off-topic.
You can do a "Jumpstart" install (a very highly-automated form of network
installation )if you have another running Solaris system. If you're
unfamiliar with that and want to do it, contact me privately, I can help.
Oracle have now made Oracle Linux (PC version)
downloadable for free. I
did it and it works just fine.
Yuck. I mean, I'm sure it runs great, but it's like Linux of a decade ago.
There's a promise of Oracle Linux for Sparc and
that would really bring
the SUN systems to life.
But Linux is nowhere near able to take advantage of the architectural
strengths of that system. I'm not knocking it; my main desktop system was a
4/610MP (Sun never sold that config, but if they did, that would've been the
model number) running Linux, about fifteen years ago. It was great. But
Solaris wasn't mature enough to run (for real) at that time...Nowadays, it
will really put that hardware (even though the E3K is a bit older) through
its paces very, very well.
Further, you can run OpenSXCE on there, and see what ultra-modern Solaris
can do. That would be neat to try.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA