On April 7, 2007 5:58 PM C Y wrote: > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tried to install openSolaris nevada build 60 on my Dell > > Optiplex 745, but eventually I gave up and installed SuSE > > instead. :-( The reason being that openSolaris 64bit seems > > to be largely unsupported by GNU tool chains, and openSolaris > > seems to ignore many of GNU software. :-( > > I've only installed it in a plex86 environment and haven't > really worked with it, but you might want to try Nexenta and > see if that works: http://www.gnusolaris.org > > I don't know that 64bit support will be any better, but the > GNU toolchain support in Nexenta may be in better shape. >
Thanks to this recommendation for Cliff, I recently installed nexenta OpenSolaris from the free OpenSolaris <starter kit> DVD. http://get.opensolaris.org I installed OpenSolaris under Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 on my Windows XP box. It works great! Nexenta OpenSolaris is the first Solaris distribution that I have been able to install on Virtual PC, although I routinely run a 2nd copy of Windows and SuSE 10.2 virtual machines. I had a small problem with the screen resolution (at first limited to 640x480) but this was easily cured by a creating and modifying the default xorg.conf to include horizontal and vertical sync, default depth and monitor modes. Details on request. I particularlly like the integration of the Debian work-a-like 'apt-get'. This makes it easy do things like this: # apt-get install subversion gcc m4 autoconf # apt-get install libxt-dev libx11-dev tetex-extra (just like on Debian) to satisfy build requirements for Axiom. Performance under Microsoft Virtual PC on my AMD 4200+ dual core machine is quite fast. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
