Ahh! At least we have some intelligent people who know about Sun's real goal and have made some good points. Solaris was released on WIntel hardware because linux was gaining in popularity and because linux was so portable to different architectures. Nevertheless, Solaris rocks on Sparc hardware. Sparc hardware is very stable and ultra high quality. The point you mention about being very scalable is given a 10/10 in correctness. You won't be seeing too many operating environments which can run from anything from a Sparc 5 to an E10K. Linux has some good aspects, but the SMP part is a little lacklustre. Probably because there aren't too many companies who wish to invest millions of dollars on a server cluster to be running a free OS which isn't professionally supported by a company.
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Sun is in competition in the server market. Granted. Sun's major competitors are IBM and HP and it'll stay that way. Microsoft have little hope to stay in the server market, but that's besides the point. The have no need to pour resources into an open sourced effort: linux, as countless other people are already contributing. They have their own baby, Solaris to feed and nurture. And a very good operating system it is. If you say it crashes, and what not, then it's probably because it's running on an WIntel chip. Solaris is rock solid in hardware and the software that is supports. Sun is a solid competitor in many aspects, and will never make a good competitor in the workstation market. You can't say that a 14.5 billion dollar company have no clue. Scott McNealy is one of the best influences on the market that has come around for a long time. Now I'm straying from the point. #include
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Solaris was released for Intel chips because of Linux. It's a far-fetched statement, but nothing runs on Sparcs better than Solaris. If a business owns a number of Sparcs, they'd have Solaris on them. With Solaris 8 coming out, it makes it even more rosier for these guys to install it due to being free of charge. Not free as in free beer tho.
Is this supposed to prevent people from addopting 2.2.13 too fast? What's the deal? I really should not have to read the development mailing list archives to find out what the latest "stable" kernel does.
I doubt that's the situation. I'd just be patient and wait for the notes to be released =) In the USA anyway, it was released quite late in the nite (from when I got the gist of it anyway...
I'm certain that it's just a little more complicated then that. I have creative's 6x PC-dvd drive, with a dxr3 decoder card and not a problem at all has gone wrong with it. So, Creative's DVD isn't at all sucking. As on the topic of region selections, Australia has a wide wide range of DVD titles out. Just look in your local video store. The Creative 5x drive has the region built in to it, whilst the 6x drive had it built into the decoder card. Unfortunately, you can only change the region 6(?) times before it permanently gets stored on the hardware. Region 1 anybody? =)
Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible. When the Luser sees something flashy, they want it, period. If they get a mail entitled "Check this thing out, it's Soooooo cool'" then guess what happens. It doesn't matter the mail client either-they see something that sounds like the next 'frog-in-a-blender' and they'll open it. Yes, and hopefully they'll learn that they had better pay attention to the warnings that most (all?) ISP's provide about opening email. Then comes the formatting of hard-disks, and gnashing of teeth.
They are big and bloated enough =) >All the user would have to do is to open the email. Gee..I don't know if many people subscribed to AOL use their email services..hehe I'd like to see how quickly AOL replies with a patch. The media would keep a close eye on this - about as close as Hotmail has received in recent months.
Yes, Redhat 6.0 would still have plenty of copies in most big-name stores. I doubt whether 6.1 will hit the shelves in a flurry - eventually it will, and the cost of it will want to be kept to a minimum of course.
Redhat 6 does exactly what it was intended to do from day 1 - most users want that objective - and don't quite need 6.1 yet.
Besides, a lot of people couldn't be bothered downloading a cd.
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The Ultra 5, when Solaris 8 is loaded onto it, runs in 64 bit mode by default.
/platform/sun4u/boot.conf :
How many 64-bit applications are you running? I'm guessing that it won't be that many.
I've seen some vast improvements when you make the kernel boot up in 32 bit mode.
Add the following ot
ALLOW_64BIT_KERNEL_ON_UltraSPARC_1_CPU=false
then run:
eeprom boot-file=kernel/unix
Not even that! Hit 'enter' for a GUI install, type 'text' for a text install (on x86's anyway...)
Ahh! At least we have some intelligent people who know about Sun's real goal and have made some good points. Solaris was released on WIntel hardware because linux was gaining in popularity and because linux was so portable to different architectures. Nevertheless, Solaris rocks on Sparc hardware. Sparc hardware is very stable and ultra high quality. The point you mention about being very scalable is given a 10/10 in correctness. You won't be seeing too many operating environments which can run from anything from a Sparc 5 to an E10K. Linux has some good aspects, but the SMP part is a little lacklustre. Probably because there aren't too many companies who wish to invest millions of dollars on a server cluster to be running a free OS which isn't professionally supported by a company.
Sun is in competition in the server market. Granted. Sun's major competitors are IBM and HP and it'll stay that way. Microsoft have little hope to stay in the server market, but that's besides the point. The have no need to pour resources into an open sourced effort: linux, as countless other people are already contributing. They have their own baby, Solaris to feed and nurture. And a very good operating system it is. If you say it crashes, and what not, then it's probably because it's running on an WIntel chip. Solaris is rock solid in hardware and the software that is supports. Sun is a solid competitor in many aspects, and will never make a good competitor in the workstation market. You can't say that a 14.5 billion dollar company have no clue. Scott McNealy is one of the best influences on the market that has come around for a long time. Now I'm straying from the point. #include
Solaris was released for Intel chips because of Linux. It's a far-fetched statement, but nothing runs on Sparcs better than Solaris. If a business owns a number of Sparcs, they'd have Solaris on them. With Solaris 8 coming out, it makes it even more rosier for these guys to install it due to being free of charge. Not free as in free beer tho.
Is this supposed to prevent people from addopting 2.2.13 too fast? What's the deal? I really should not have to read the development mailing list archives to find out what the latest "stable" kernel does.
I doubt that's the situation. I'd just be patient and wait for the notes to be released =) In the USA anyway, it was released quite late in the nite (from when I got the gist of it anyway...
I'm certain that it's just a little more complicated then that. I have creative's 6x PC-dvd drive, with a dxr3 decoder card and not a problem at all has gone wrong with it. So, Creative's DVD isn't at all sucking. As on the topic of region selections, Australia has a wide wide range of DVD titles out. Just look in your local video store. The Creative 5x drive has the region built in to it, whilst the 6x drive had it built into the decoder card. Unfortunately, you can only change the region 6(?) times before it permanently gets stored on the hardware. Region 1 anybody? =)
I don't know what your problem is, but I bet it's hard to pronounce =)
Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible. When the Luser sees something flashy, they want it, period. If they get a mail entitled "Check this thing out, it's Soooooo cool'" then guess what happens. It doesn't matter the mail client either-they see something that sounds like the next 'frog-in-a-blender' and they'll open it. Yes, and hopefully they'll learn that they had better pay attention to the warnings that most (all?) ISP's provide about opening email. Then comes the formatting of hard-disks, and gnashing of teeth.
Kewl stuff...are there many new changes? I wonder how many releases before the cling-wrapped 2.4 kernels come out? Can't wait.. *jumps up and down*...
They are big and bloated enough =) >All the user would have to do is to open the email. Gee..I don't know if many people subscribed to AOL use their email services..hehe I'd like to see how quickly AOL replies with a patch. The media would keep a close eye on this - about as close as Hotmail has received in recent months.
Yes, Redhat 6.0 would still have plenty of copies in most big-name stores. I doubt whether 6.1 will hit the shelves in a flurry - eventually it will, and the cost of it will want to be kept to a minimum of course.
Redhat 6 does exactly what it was intended to do from day 1 - most users want that objective - and don't quite need 6.1 yet.
Besides, a lot of people couldn't be bothered downloading a cd.