[ILUG] Solaris X.86 dies.

[Anders Holm]

On Friday 11 January 2002 10:55, Liam Bedford wrote:
[snip]
> > Solaris to become free (as in beer) for machines with 8 or less
> > processors which is most of the Intel installed base so Sun's revenue
> > from Solaris IA sales, never huge, dwindled further.
>
> surely that's the whole of the Intel base, as 8 way is as much as Xeon's
> go (with a hack to allow two by 4 processor groups to coexist)

Well, Solaris for Sparc is also free for systems up to 8 processors. AFTER 
that point you'd have to register your copy and pay a (humungous) software 
license fee.

> I always found Solaris on Intel to be slower, and more memory hungry
> than Linux. I also hated the fact that you either had to set
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> or compile with -R because there's no /etc/ld.so.conf

Well, that's how it's built.. ;)

> (and there's no point telling me how to do it, I don't have a machine to
> run solaris x86 on now (unless that P75 would feel like it.. nope, I
> think that would be insane))

Your P75 should be up to the task if you don't want to run X and the likes... 
And if your hw is supported of course... ;)

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Anders Holm
Unix System Administrator
Novara Technology Group

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