Re: Help all?

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On Thursday 12 March 2009 05:17:16 am T. Ribbrock wrote:
> Second try - SPF didn't like my "From:" - grrrrrr....
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:27:41AM +0100, Jos van der Ende wrote:
> > You can try Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris,
>
> OpenSolaris is still not available for Sparc.
actually it is. at least there are developer builds available for the next=
=20
release as well as Solaris Express Community Edition. (note ive not tried t=
o=20
use them at all)

> I have Solaris 10 on my U60, but coming from a Linux background, I'm
> still unimpressed - configuration and administration seems a lot more
> cumbersome when compared to e.g. Ubuntu (or even Aurora). Just getting
> some security patches installed takes a lot of patience and stamina...
> (unless you do it manually via command line, in which case you have to
> spend a lot of time pinpointing the correct patches). At least half of
> those problems will be related to habit, of course, but coming from
> Linux, it's not a straightforward transition.
> The biggest upside of running Solaris on Sparc, though, is that some
> applications are easier to get running, as "Solaris/Sparc" is better
> supported than "Linux/Sparc" or "*BSD/Sparc" by non-OSS developers.
> Things like Java and Flash used to be a problem there, if you need
> them - though I have not checked whether that's still the case.
There is no flash for Linux/SPARC  but the Fedora 9 tree has openjdk 1.6.0 =
 so=20
at least the java side now should just work.=20

Dennis

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