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Oh, Really?

...are you sure?

I mean, seriously - you're sure about that?

Idiot.

/P

From the link here:
Solaris on Intel - X86 FAQ

(4.2) What hardware is supported by Solaris for Intel?

Solaris x86 is the version that runs on Intel-based PCs and servers. Requirements vary to release, but generally a Pentium-class processor or better from Intel or AMD, a PCI bus, 256 MB of memory, and 20 GB Disk. Solaris base and Java Desktop System takes about 5GB. Add Java Enterprise System (not needed except for servers), for a full install takes about 11GB. Add in swap and free space, so you should have, say, a 10 or 20 GB disk or larger. Many multi-processor boards and multi-processor cores are supported. You must have a CD-ROM drive or access to NFS or a boot server over the network to install. A DVD drive is better, as it's fewer disks to swap.

I can scale Linux from my 64Meg Pentuim 150 to my 512Meg Pentium4 with a sprinkling of AMDs mixed in.


(7.5) My licensed software fails because the host ID is 0. What's wrong?

Intel processor machines don't have an IDPROM, so Sun generates a serial number, hostid command or sysinfo()'s SI_HW_SERIAL, pseudo-randomly during installation. The number is stored in /kernel/misc/sysinit, whose only function, it appears, is to provide the serial number. If serialization information is tampered or sysinit fails to load, the host ID will be 0. If you reinstall Solaris, sysinit will be regenerated and your host ID will change. So be careful about reinstalling Solaris if you have licensed software that depends on your host ID. Backup your sysinit file.

As of now, I need no licenses on Linux to tell me how to run my software. I buy it, install it, and forget about it (Yes I've purchased Linux software (games) from companies).

Food for thought,
Enjoy.

For NICs I have the best luck with Intel (e.g., EEPRO 100 or 1000). For video and DVDs, get name-brand stuff, no cheap barely-working on Windows junk.

Personally, I think the best of Solaris 10 are Zones (partitioning sw), a faster TCP/IP stack, 64-bit X86 support (SPARC 64 has been around forever), and DTRACE scripting (useful performance tuning).

ZFS is promising for a filesystem and volume management, but it won't come out until the next update sometime "real soon."

For NICs I have the best luck with Intel (e.g., EEPRO 100 or 1000). For video and DVDs, get name-brand stuff, no cheap barely-working on Windows junk.

Personally, I think the best of Solaris 10 are Zones (partitioning sw), a faster TCP/IP stack, 64-bit X86 support (SPARC 64 has been around forever), and DTRACE scripting (useful performance tuning).

ZFS is promising for a filesystem and volume management, but it won't come out until the next update sometime "real soon."

For more information see the Solaris x86 FAQ (which I wrote with the help of hundreds)

BTW, the problems PHP has with Apache 2 is the MTM model. If you won't use multithreading, you're OK. If you use MT, make sure the underlying libraries you compile in or use with PHP are MT-safe.

Apache 2.0.51 is not even available, as 2.0.52 fixes the 2.0.51 regression.

BTW, I have a document about using PHP and Apache2 at http://dan.drydog.com/apache2php.html

It'll be a long wait. W. Richard Stevens passed away in 1999. See http://dan.drydog.com/6bone/w.richard.stevens.obit uary.html

For Redhat 9 and probably other distributions, Apache 2 and PHP are supported out of the box.

Don't use PHP 5.x yet for production. Wait until it's released (at least), or a few months after the initial release.

I have a webpage on how to build and use PHP with Apache 2.x at http://dan.drydog.com/apache2php.html 4.3.4

Keep in mind that Solaris x86 doesn't support every hardware combination that MS Windows seems to. For details and pointers, see the Solaris x86 FAQ that I wrote.

What does that mean to you? It means you no longer have to download and recompile, from source, a new version of PHP to fix what Apache broke.

However, with Apache 2, I don't recommend the multi-threading MPM. No big deal if you're using Apache 1, since multi-threading isn't available (with UNIX/Linux at least). The problem isn't Apache or even PHP, but the scores of 3rd-party libraries PHP may hook into (depending on how much stuff you configure in PHP).

For details on Apache 2 and PHP, see my webpage at http://dan.drydog.com/apache2php.html

Stick with the classic (Apache 1.x) prefork MPM model and you'll be a lot safer. YMMV.

I have a writeup on using PHP with Apache 2 at http://dan.drydog.com/apache2php.html

I have a mini-howto on Apache 2.x and PHP 4 at http://dan.drydog.com/apache2php.html As for the new 2.0.x stable series--that's great news. What it means is "no more recompiling modules between minor releases."

I use ESR's gif2png to convert my legacy GIF files to PNG for web use. I provide Solaris SPARC and x86 packages (Linux packages are available elsewhere).

For information on Korn shell, see http://www.kornshell.com/

With ksh, you can more easily interoperate with commercial UNIX systems, which now a days all come with ksh.

Read the name, OK. XFree86. Note the *86*. That means it's written for the Intel/AMD family of microprocessors. Porting to SPARC would be non-trivial. BTW, more information is at my Solaris x86 FAQ at http://sun.drydog.com

Personally, I don't think Sparc Solaris is good as a graphics workstation. Intel Solaris has a wide range of graphic cards available, but not the software (especially compared with BeOS!).

You can also see my Solaris Intel FAQ at http://sun.drydog.com/faq/