Re: Free Solaris Intel 2.7

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From: Peter Maydell
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 00:00

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Huge <huge@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Ian Northeast <ian@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>Try NG alt.solaris.x86, and http://soldc.sun.com/

There's also uk.comp.sys.sun, although it's relatively low-traffic.

>>I tried it [Solaris] for a while and wasn't over impressed.
>
>OTOH, Red Hat on Sparc sucked donkey dick. After a week of crashes, stuff
>not running, SCSI failures and being unable to do loads of stuff that
>is supposed to work, I took Red Hat out and went back to Sol 7.

OTOOH, I find Debian on Sparc much nicer than SunOS4; I haven't had
too many problems and I'm just lazy enough to prefer all my machines
to be administrable in the same way :-> I originally had RedHat/Sparc
(when Debian was seriously bleeding edge) and that seemed to work,
although I personally dislike RedHat. YMMV, clearly.

To be fair, I do have sufficient patience and Debian experience to fix 
some of the problems (like it not wanting to boot from floppy on 
install)...

Peter Maydell

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From: pm215@watchdragon.demon.co.uk (Peter Maydell)
Subject: Re: Free Solaris Intel 2.7
Date: 1999/07/25
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