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The Return Of Solaris 9 For x86

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the which-end-of-the-bandwagon-suits-you dept.

The Pi-Guy writes: "Hoping that I won't screw up again about Solaris 9 on x86 again, this time I'm sure I got it right... eWeek is covering that indeed, Sun will be shipping Solaris 9 for x86 after all!!! Also in that article, they note that Sun is shipping a x86 based server, which will ship the 26th. It will be running a Sun Linux distro... Many surprises from Sun today!!"

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  1. Sun LX50 Servers by jaaron · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not only will Solaris 9 run on x86, but Sun's new LX50 server is x86 based. And the really cool thing is you can get it with either Solaris or Sun's new Linux distro. This marks an interesting turn for Sun, throwing support to both x86 processors *and* linux.

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    1. Re:Sun LX50 Servers by BigFootApe · · Score: 2, Interesting

      But aren't items 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7 really features of Sun Fire servers, not the OS.

      Hey, if I'm wrong, that's great. I'd like dynamic reconfiguration and "easy hot swapping" on my k6/2 machine just by switching to Solaris.

  2. Re:The big news is by Craig+Maloney · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Already been done. Check out the RoadRunner series of computers from Sun. Granted, it's not a true IBM PC compatible, but it was Intel based. It was killed in favor of the 68K/SPARC architectures.

  3. This is what Solaris x86 should be used for... by cnelzie · · Score: 5, Interesting


    As a stepping stone for those geeks that want to learn and work on Solaris, but are unable to afford real Sun hardware and don't want to take the risks associated with second-hand-could-be-missing-important-pieces-of-h ardware Sparcstations from Ebay.

    For instance, I personally used Solaris 8 x86 for this purpose. I loaded it up on an old 200Mhz system that I had laying around. Granted the installation took way to long, the boot process took way to long. However, in the end, I had a functioning Solaris running box to play with.

    I started learning the Solaris commands. The files in /etc. How to configure it for a network. How to setup services. A variety of things that I simply would have been unable to do, if Solaris x86 didn't exist.

    Why knock Solaris x86 as slow? As a Solaris learning platform, it is more than perfect for someone on a budget who may have a spare PC, but little dough to blow on Ebay. Personally, I wouldn't use it in a production environment, on the hardware that it came with.

    I am quite certain that it will be faster with specially provided drivers for hardware that has the "blessing" of Sun.

    If you ignore a tool for the other uses it has, does that make the tool less usefull or you less usefull?

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  4. Re:cost?? by jeffy124 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    well, Solaris 9 for SPARC can be d'loaded for free (as in beer), so I hope similar treatment for x86 is in store. See http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get. html

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  5. "Productization"? by budalite · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Am I the only one that doubts that there is (or, at least, wasn't) any such word as "Productization"? They used it *twice* in the article. [ahbadee-ahbadee-ahbadee (the sound made by a toon when shaking his head to clear it!)] :)