Solaris 10 Released 478
AusG4 writes "Sun Microsystems has released Solaris 10 for both SPARC and Intel/Opteron. Downloading it is the usual 'register and get your free license' meandering; the Intel/Opteron version is 4 CDs and an optional language and companion disc (a bunch of pre-compiled GNU software in pkgadd format, I'm assuming, same as Solaris 8 and 9)."
Cheap Sun hardware (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Cheap Sun hardware (Score:3, Insightful)
Oh come on, where's your sense of geekiness?! Sun hardware is cool! Give me my E250 over some boring beige box running Linux any day.
Re:Cheap Sun hardware (Score:3, Funny)
The hole in our Apple theories (Score:5, Interesting)
I think that Sun is providing us with a very good example of the opposite being true. Even though they literally give their product away for free, they still make money on their hardware. Apple would be fools to give up the high-margin hardware market and try to compete toe to toe with Microsoft Windows.
Re:The hole in our Apple theories (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:The hole in our Apple theories (Score:4, Insightful)
Hmm, but one would need to brace oneself for new bugs due to the much more varied PC hardware => having to rely on third party developers => having to accept they might break your stable OS. That's basically the major cause of instability for Windows XP that I can see today. Fortunately, there are WHQL certified drivers so it became less of an issue when those were introduced. Just saying that with Apple hardware, you're staying away from a heck of a lot of problems in the formula of giving drivers direct hardware acccess for decent perfomance while keeping the whole thing stable.
Re:The hole in our Apple theories (Score:2, Interesting)
Ever heard of economic breach of contract? [Where it is more profitable to breach a contract than perform]. The worst that could happen to Apple is a disgorgement of profits [which would be HIGHLY unlikely for reasons below (antitrust laws)], but then they would have a footing in the OS market.
Plus if Apple were to breach their contract with Microsoft and there are some an anti-compete clauses in the contract, I think a few antitrust laws in the USA and EU would prot
Re:The hole in our Apple theories (Score:2)
The main problem with the x86 'PC' market is drivers. There's an aweful lot hardware out there and they all need drivers. If you're aiming at home users, then they're going to want to plug in their latest toy and expect it to work. Trust me, as a devoted Linux user of 9 years I know how hard it is to get things working on a non-Windows OS without the support of the manufacturer. The nice thing about Apple hardware is that they control the platform and a number of the gadgets that plug into it. Go to the x8
Re:The hole in our Apple theories (Score:2)
Drinking some Kool-Aid are you?
While desktop PCs may lose some unit volume (not all that much though, since they are the most bang for the buck), that will be replaced by laptop volume. Apple makes very nice laptops.
General purpose computers will be around in volume for a
Piffle (Score:4, Insightful)
Sun simply isn't [theregister.com] making the money that you think it is.
Re:Piffle (Score:3, Insightful)
If Apple sells an x86 version of Mac OS X and want to increase their market share in the PC OS market, they won't be able to charge as much as Windows. The competition is also hard and rough in the PC world. Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, etc2. Another problem is that there are too many variations with PC hardwares. Apple are comfortable with t
Re:Piffle (Score:3, Interesting)
They have the standardizataion, they have the name brand, they have a market of established consumer software. They have consumer oriend distribution channels and developers that know their products o
Re:Piffle (Score:2)
I think you'll increasingly find that this is all that Microsoft really has going for Windows anymore. Apple is making a resurgence on the Desktop front. Linux and the BSD's are strong in many of the server roles. F/OSS in general is encroaching on MS's turf (e.g Mozilla/Firefox and OpenOffice). Attention is turning to small embedded devices (phones, PDA's) and media devices. MS is putting focus in these areas but hasn't
Re:Piffle (Score:2)
Xbox is basicly a PC, I agree, it also moving over to the PowerPC architecture for the next version. Think abo
Re:Piffle (Score:2)
Did you notice that the link you provided was a story from 2003 about the quarter ending June 2003? Hardly seems relevant today.
Re:The hole in our Apple theories (Score:2)
Sun should release some hardware, for sure, and some pretty decent and funky stuff soon. I want Sun to be at the forefront of Java enabled devices. They have manuf. facilities, and they need to move fast.
Solaris cannot compete against linux for home users (i.e. it doesn't differeantiate enough for home usage, just critical apps / support requirements / specialist software) so Sun realise that ensuring the market for it is good
Re:The hole in our Apple theories (Score:2)
However I see no reason to NOT port OS-X to the Intel platform.
Re:The hole in our Apple theories (Score:2)
This reminds me of my time in 'Nam...
Apple doesn't sell "Hardware" (was:The hole in...) (Score:2)
It's only with this special combination of both that gives apple a severe edge over it's competition.
Re:The hole in our Apple theories (Score:3, Insightful)
Mindshare.
They want people to think of well built quality systems, with emphasis on quality. This is the reason Rolls Royce doesn't make cars to compete with civics. If apple where to make OS X for x86 they'd lose the image they to try to project of having systems that just work (due to quality on lots of x86 hardware) . Apple may be a small fish, but it lives in a small pond where it IS the big fish. They keep that market and they'll live on just fine (and be
Re:The hole in our Apple theories (Score:2, Funny)
And a fourth category (Score:2, Insightful)
There are folks out there buying Apple hardware because they are more comfortable with a UNIX-like operating system. They want a system capable of interfacing with all of their various Linux and Unix boxes with built-in ability to run X11 (or some variant thereof). They also realize that they work in a corporate environment where MS Office is King, and may have been burned in the past with OpenOffice not handling all MS documents properly.
Some folks may
Oh I know... (Score:2)
Now I'm using a Powerbook all of the time for development and trying to
Don't mislead people (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Don't mislead people (Score:2)
Re:Don't mislead people (Score:3, Informative)
You can still use Solaris 8 or Solaris 9. Besides, sun4m is already more than a decade old, and sun4u (UltraSPARC) is binary compatible with sun4m for applications.
Of course, there's always OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, or Linux for your older SPARC systems.
Re:Don't mislead people (Score:2, Informative)
The machine you are refering to is an Ultra 2 and by the sounds of it has UltraSPARC-I CPUs, which if you check the release notes for Solaris 10 you will see that that the UltraSPARC-I (less than 200Mhz, 64-bit but not quite) is not supported, while the US-II is (200Mhz fully 64bit and above).
License summary anyone? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:License summary anyone? (Score:5, Informative)
ENTITLEMENT for
SOLARIS 10 3/05 OPERATING SYSTEM
THIS ENTITLEMENT EVIDENCES YOUR AUTHORIZED SCOPE OF USE UNDER THE TERMS
OF THE SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR THE SUN SOFTWARE
INDICATED BELOW (THE SLA) UNLESS OTHERWISE AGREED IN WRITING BETWEEN YOU AND
SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. (SUN). Capitalized terms not defined in this document
have the meanings ascribed to them in the SLA. These terms will
supersede any inconsistent or conflicting terms in the SLA.
Licensee/Company: Entity in receipt of Software from an authorized source
Beginning Date of License Term: the date of receipt of this Entitlement
Software: Solaris 10 3/05
Permitted Use: Commercial Use
License Term: Perpetual (subject to termination under the SLA)
Licensed Unit: Registered Computer System
Licensed unit Count: Unlimited
Additional Terms:
1.0 License to Develop. You are authorized to develop software programs
utilizing Software. If you desire to develop software programs which
incorporate portions of Software ("Developed Programs"), the following
provisions apply: (i) you may not modify or add to application programming
interfaces associated with Software; (ii) you are not licensed to use fonts
within Software to develop printing applications unless you have secured valid
licenses from the appropriate font suppliers; (iii) incorporation of portions of
Motif in Developed Programs may require reporting of copies of Developed
Programs to Sun;
and (iv) you will indemnify and defend Sun and its licensors from any
claims, including attorneys' fees, which arise from or relate to distribution or
use of Developed Programs to the extent these claims arise from or relate to the
development performed by you. This Section 1.0 does not apply to the Sun Java
System Application Server Platform Edition 8, Sun Java System Message
Queue 3.5, Sun Java System Directory Server 5, and Java 2 Platform, Standard
Edition (J2SE) included in or bundled with the Software.
2.0 Sun Java Studio Enterprise for Evaluation Only. You may only use the Java
Studio Enterprise (Studio) bundled or embedded with the Sun Java System
Application Server Standard Edition portions of Software for Evaluation Use
unless you purchase a separate license from Sun. Studio may contain a time out
mechanism.
3.0 Sun Java System Directory Server 5. This Section 3.0 applies only
to the Sun Java System Directory Server 5 portion of the Software.
3.1. Definitions.
(a) "Directory Instance(s)" means an instance of the Sun Java System
Directory Server process, slapd, running on a server.
(b) "Entry(ies)" means a single Distinguished Name ("DN") and its
associated attributes.
(c) "Enterprise Wide" means your entire enterprise network.
3.2 License Grant. Sun grants you a non-exclusive and non-transferable
license
for the internal use only of Sun Java System Directory Server 5 (Directory
Server) (where you control, manage, configure and otherwise use the software)
for your internal business use and not for resale or redistribution in any
manner and only for the number of Entries for which the corresponding
fee has been paid. Subject to the limitations of the previous sentence, you may
provide services with Directory Server to users outside of your commercial legal
entity, if any; provided that you may not permit any such user to control, manage or
configure Directory Server.
3.3 Additional Use Conditions.
(a) Directory Server may contain, at no charge, up to an aggregate maximum of
200,000 Entries, across any and all Directory Instances running
Enterprise Wide.
For the purposes of this Section 3.3(a) only, Entries exclude Solaris 10
operating system entries that do not define users.
(b) You may install and run multiple instances of the Sun Java System
Directory Server Console client on multiple computers and platforms for remote
and distributed administration of servers and applications.
Multiple OS support? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Multiple OS support? (Score:5, Informative)
It's also surprisingly easy to kill your other operating systems when you install though, so do your homework. (Google "dual-boot" "Solaris 10" etc. and keep reading till you're sure you've filled in all the gaps, and back up just in case). Also of course have a copy of Knoppix and your bootloader configuration around.
Re:Multiple OS support? (Score:3, Insightful)
I killed multiple Windows installations and a BSD installation a few years ago by installing Solaris on a spare partition!! This marked the immediate end of my adventures with Sun software.
Re:Multiple OS support? (Score:2)
The experience you'll pull out of it will be worth it.
Solaris Zones vs User Mode Linux (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Solaris Zones vs User Mode Linux (Score:3, Informative)
I am currently using UML for running multiple servers on one host, and a collegue runs multiple linuces with XEN [cam.ac.uk] (he runs it on his desktop, too!), and he says it performs near to native. He demonstrated it to me, very impressive. Easier to administrate than UML. I'll switch to xen. And ISPs will, too.
I'll check opensolaris when it's ported to the xen-arch like netbsd a
Re:Solaris Zones vs User Mode Linux (Score:2)
If Sun can provide a full-featured OS, the slickness of SUSE (easy package management/admin gui), good range of drivers (including nvidia/nforce) then ISPs may well run Solaris.
Why would ISPs.... (Score:2)
Just curious....
Re:Why would ISPs.... (Score:2)
Re:Solaris Zones vs User Mode Linux (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Solaris Zones vs User Mode Linux (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Solaris Zones vs User Mode Linux (Score:2)
There's two different ways to install a zone. You can have a sparse filesystem or a full filesystem. Then you can play games with lofs to mount various shared bits. It's quite flexable.
Openvms is downloadable too. Most reliable OS. (Score:5, Insightful)
A new operating system every year but software that can't be ported is the still the main problem. Why don't you people realize this. It's the software that is the problem . The software vendors are targeting only a few distributions. Windows .
Re:Openvms is downloadable too. Most reliable OS. (Score:4, Interesting)
from their faq [hp.com]
Re:Openvms is downloadable too. Most reliable OS. (Score:3, Interesting)
Don't fall for the trap (Score:3, Informative)
Nobody who intends to contribute to glibc must look at anything but the public header files of the Solaris libc and related libraries.
(Emph. mine) Don't fall for the Solaris trap!
Re:Don't fall for the trap (Score:5, Insightful)
How is that informative? If anything, that is stupid. FUD the Red Hat way. Woo - I'm scared, my mouse hand is trembling as I'm clicking on that download link...
First, 99.9% percent of those who try will never see thieir libc contents (or, can't understand them).
Second, it's not that Drepper is some legal expert. Furthermore he has vested interest - the fewer folks look at Solaris the better for him and Red Hat stock price.
Those who can think with their own head should read the FAQ and licensing terms themselves rather than listen legal advice of a coder...
www.sun.com/software/communitysource/faq.xml
Why the scare tactics? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Don't fall for the trap (Score:3, Informative)
Nobody who intends to contribute to glibc must look at anything but the public header files of the Solaris libc and related libraries.
As usual I see the FUD trolls are out in full force this morning. I'll bite...
In case you aren't already aware, there is
Re:And vice versa (Score:2)
Ulrich Drepper is a RedHat employee and only affiliated with the FSF as much as he happens to be the GNU C library maintainer. However, he is known to have quite an anti-FSF stance and accused RMS of trying to steer glibc development according to his agenda before [redhat.com] (see the second half of this announcement).
So this is not really the FSF who are taking this stance, but a concerned developer.
Michael
slashdot ad has been up for days (Score:3, Interesting)
That same ad is at the top of the page now.
In fact, I have seen it a LOT the last several days.
Solaris 10 on Sun Ultra 5/Ultra 10 questions (Score:3, Interesting)
If anyone could give me some guidance as to whether or not I can upgrade and still have a usable box, it would be greatly appreciated (I'm sure I'm not the only one either).
Re:Solaris 10 on Sun Ultra 5/Ultra 10 questions (Score:2)
That said, I think the OS is nice...but consider that the U5 and U10 boxes are over 6 years old at this point. Regardless, I find the performance acceptable for my needs.
Now, as soon as Sun's servers unclog, I might be able to download a copy.
Conflicted interests (Score:3, Interesting)
(Just noticed the big sun.com advertisement at the top of the homepage)
whilst everyone is bashing Sun..... (Score:3, Informative)
I installed it on VMware GSX 3.1 as a guest on Gentoo Linux Host OS with little trouble.
I gave the system 128 megs of ram to play with - I'm running 4 other VMs at the moment for development purposes so my development server needs a bit more RAM.
I got to say, the new Java desktop is dead sexy, uses a lot of Gnome applets and programs. They have borrowed a lot from that gear, and also some the GNU tools now come standardly installed.
A full install didnt seem to install SSH as a service, nor Telnet but that could be for my setup and selection process. I didnt select a fine tune, just install-all.
I couldnt get the GUI setup to work, although this could be for my setup, the GUI setup requires 96megs of ram or more, and I did provide 128 meg in the VM so not sure whats going on there. However, the text install works fine. I am exporting the Vmware Console over an X client running on my Windows workstation so maybe it doesnt like something there - not sure. My other VM's havent complained thus far.
Oh yeah I told a friend about Sol 10 is now ready so he downloaded it also, he was able to get the GUI install to work and said its awesome. Mentioned that you can browse the Internet whilst the OS is installing. Reminds me some Linux installs that let you play games whilst its chugging away.
I was a bit disappointed that cc compiler doesnt work straight out of the box with the 'full install', it needed some other program or library it was whinging about and I havent bothered to look it up.
The default shell is csh (?), but amazingly enough bash is installed by default.
For some reason I couldnt create a home directory under
Well I only installed it 2 days and I havent really given it a run for its money. But do hope to start playing with it more soon.
Might not matter anymore (Score:2)
Linux and BSD's are changing fast and becoming useful. They are also installed with many better options than CDE.
The installation that came with Solaris 9 had no documentation sufficient to actually perform an installation unless you where already a Sun expert. This is one of the key points in what made Linux so popular in the beginning. Available documentation and free support from internet resources.
If RedHat and SuSE decide to start really laming down their mailing lists, I would expect them to lose
Download speed (Score:3, Interesting)
Sparc hardware list? Supports E450s? (Score:3, Informative)
Production examples of Solaris 10 in action? (Score:3, Interesting)
Anyone know any such stories/examples?
Thanks.
Re:Free Software (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Free Software (Score:2, Informative)
I don't think KDE was ever included with Solaris. CDE, OpenWindows, and eventually GNOME are the only environments that have ever shipped with Solaris, AFAIK.
Re:Free Software (Score:3, Informative)
I use the KDE packages from blastwave.org and haven't had any problems.
Cheers,
Roger
Re:Free Software (Score:2, Informative)
Ultra60 with a GB of ram and WindowMaker makes a nice quick workstation
Re:UNIX vs. LINUX? (Score:2)
Re:UNIX vs. LINUX? (Score:2)
If you don't want to delete your Windows or Linux partitions, you can probably run Solaris inside a VM, like VMWare [vmware.com].
The main reason I'm installing Solaris is to test the cross-platform compability on the programs I develop. But who knows, maybe I'll fall in love with it..
Re:UNIX vs. LINUX? (Score:4, Informative)
And if you really, seriously want to do it, for the love of God check the hardware compatibility list [sun.com] and save the rest of us a million questions about why Solaris won't work on your PC. Simple - if the hardware's not on the list, Solaris won't work with it! Really! Sun's not lying in their document.
Re:UNIX vs. LINUX? (Score:5, Insightful)
-Install Solaris
-Install gcc
-Install pkgsrc
-'make install' your desired package
-Enjoy
Re:Cool. (Score:2)
Give away the OS, sell apps instead. (You listening, Microsoft?)
Thing is, when you buy XP you get pretty much all a regular user wants already. You got Wordpad which is good enough to read/write docs, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and MSN Messenger to do your stuff online, a nice picture viewer, media player..(i know you also get plenty of spyware/virus with the above programs but you can get free non-MS replacements anyway)
So how is Microsoft supp
Re:Cool. (Score:2)
Re:Cool. (Score:2)
Here's an idea -- stop bundling all that shit with the OS!
Re:Cool. (Score:2)
Actually, the AC has a point.
I'd love a free version of Windows, since all I use Windows for is Counter-Strike. I don't use IE, I use FireFox and Opera. My Linux server provides me with mutt for email, and I never used Windows Movie Maker. OpenOffice takes care of all my office needs.
Give the OS away for free, and sell the apps. It's an excellent idea.
Re:Cool. (Score:2)
Now I remember why I left Windows a couple of years ago. All that bundled spyware-infested virus-inviting low-quality crap I couldn't get rid of.
Re:Well, so much for the warm fuzzies. (Score:2)
Re:Well, so much for the warm fuzzies. (Score:5, Interesting)
Sure, I need to pay for support for each copy I run, but there's other distros out there that will run most anything RHEL does if they piss me off enough. Fedora is also a RedHat sponsored project, and for that they don't really care how many machines I, as an end user or developer, deploy. They appreciate the bug reports I send them though.
If the app I want is only certified on RedHat, it's a commercial app, and I might as well use Solaris if I'm going the proprietary route anyway.
Maybe I am being paranoid, but I can't shake the feeling that Sun is "playing the OSS game" - they don't want to participate in the community, they're playing games to see how much of the OSS community's strength they can steal.
When will I trust them? When they either GPL Open Solaris or make it plain as plain can be that they will not use thier patents against any OSS developer - even RedHat.
Soko
Re:Well, so much for the warm fuzzies. (Score:2)
http://install.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/rhel/AS3/i386
^^^ There you go. 5 minutes on google to find 'em, and not a "Take That Down!!!" letter in sight.
Soko
Re:Well, so much for the warm fuzzies. (Score:2)
I'm fairly sure theres nothing stopping them from asking for the reciept or invoice for your copy of the software before they are required to give source out.
*note* This is just my interpretation of the "gimme source" clause of the GPL.
Re:Well, so much for the warm fuzzies. (Score:2)
The GPL does not require *you* be able to download the source, only that the people who have had binaries distributed to them be able to download the source.
That said, SRPMs are available from ftp.redhat.com and hundreds of mirror sites.
Re:Well, so much for the warm fuzzies. (Score:3)
Now what exactly is the problem?
Also, Solaris is the Sun Branded Product. OpenSolaris is the Open source Solaris. Further
Re:Well, so much for the warm fuzzies. (Score:2)
Fair 'nuf. Thanks for clearing that up.
Please don't fall victim to the conspiacy (sic) theories.
I haven't yet. I know Sun is trying. When they've tried for a while and not attacked anyone in the FOSS community, I'll likley change my tune.
Soko
Linux vs, branded *nix? (Score:5, Insightful)
Traditionally the branded *nixes have been more stable than Linux, performed better especially on large multipro systems, been guaranteed to work practically 100% of the time on certified hardware, been better tested and not on the OS using public like Linux still is to a large extent. Furthermore, with the big brands, if you have a mysterious bug or kernel panic you get a number to call and somebody works on it 16 hours a day till the bug is fixed. I can vouch for that last part, I used to do it for a living with a major Branded *nix. I will freely admit, however, that Linux is catching up with the branded *nixes. It has practically killed them off on most stand alone workstations and it is eating into the small to medium server market which is probably also why Sun is doing this.
Re:i want to know (Score:2)
Support, scalability, integration with hardware. (Score:2)
But this is changing fast.
I think Sun did not jump in the bandwagon early enough, IBM and perhaps even HP will eat their lunch for lacking the guts to become a Linux player earlier in the game.
Re:i want to know (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:One HUGE kudos to SUN. (Score:2)
2.x finished when Sun relegated "SunOS" to technical use and came out with the "Solaris" monkier for marketing purposes.
Re:Nightmare for MS (Score:2)
Two? What about the wonderful BSDs I've been using for years?
Re:Something to play with (Score:3, Interesting)
You downloaded 'Solaris Express', which is a kind of rolling beta release they put out. What the article links to is the real deal release version.
Re:where is x86_64 version? x86 is not x86_64! (Score:2)
Re:where is x86_64 version? x86 is not x86_64! (Score:2, Informative)
Solaris 10 x86 supports 64 bit in the same way that SPARC does, with architecture specific modules depending what kernel you boot. If you boot "kernel/unix" you get generic 32-bit x86 architecture kernel. If you boot "kernel/amd64/unix" you get 64 bit goodness on Opteron and EMT64.
I have been running it 64 bit on an Athlon 64 notebook for som
Re:Sun who? (Score:2)
If I dink with it at work for the next year, It's another keyword I get to put on my resume. Solaris Administration, deployment and operation.
It also helps that I saved several UltraSparc 5's from the destruction truck 2 years ago...
Professional experience with Sun hardware for free
It creates a way to get more people who are familiar w
Re:Sun who? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Sun who? (Score:2)
I dont just bend over for anyone you know.
My reasoning is as follows...
I worked on a product where we supported 37 different variants of unix. What a nightmare, we had config scripts up the wazoo. And now linux is:
a) going down the same path
b) doing it a damn sight faster
c) adding the joy of kernel-version-hell to the joy of dll-hell and distro-hell.
For all we hate MS - there is only one MS. And one XP. And I can write s/w today that will work tomorrow, and probably for seve
Re:Sun who? (Score:2)
Just because dumb clients can be swooned by a BS ad about Windows doesn't mean you need to pander and encourage it.
Re:You are missing the point (Score:2)
Love em or hate em - there is only one MS. And you know just where to get software and who to turn to when there's a problem.
Consumers (the great unwashed, not the really squeeky clean like you and me who know what their doing) want a single choice. And linux doesn't give that to them. And without them (bless their hearts) there's going to be no epiphany of th
Re:I tried x86 Solaris 9.. didn't like it. (Score:3, Insightful)
Solaris is a server-class OS that was never intended to run on the kind of commodity hardware most people have in the box on their desk. That said, maybe now it's open source people will start writing and contributing drivers.
You do realize..... (Score:2)
The emulation siftware could have problems as well...
Re:Solaris 10 install hang at USB detection on VMw (Score:3, Interesting)
I have a beta build running on an iBook G4 under VPC 7, which is explicitly "not supported" by VPC. Took a while to install...
Re:Forgive my ignorance.. (Score:2)
Re:Solaris for Opteron? That's nice (Score:2)
Likewise Project Janus also isn't included yet. ZFS wasn't included in Solaris Express, I'm not sure if it is now either. May expect a release in a few months to cover all these bases.
Re:Solaris for Opteron? That's nice (Score:3, Interesting)
This isn't. AMD64 support was integrated into Solaris Express late last year. The same OS covers both IA32 and AMD64, just as how Solaris 9 on UltraSPARC supported both 32bit and 64bit machines. Solaris has been doing multi-ABI support transparently on UltraSPARC for quite a while now, and it transfers nicely to S10.
This is actually one area where Linux distributions lag behind Solaris. I dont k
Re: (Score:2)
Re:This story is 3 months old (Score:3, Informative)
I read your lips and you were still wrong.