I mentioned that Milak 0.3.2 runs on a lot of older hardware with 256 MB or more, and Solaris 10 covers most legacy computers. OpenSolaris 2008.11-b98 and above for everything else.
Ken Mays --- On Sat, 10/4/08, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Roadmap for Solaris support of cheap/legacy > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 7:50 PM > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am interested in investing in Sun, and I see > > Solaris as one of it's > > > greatest assets. The problem that I see (And am > in > > no way asserting that > > > I'm smart enough to be right.) is that > Solaris only > > works well on a tiny, > > > tiny, tiny, tiny portion of the hardware > that's out > > there. > > > > man, I have run it on all manner of wird stuff. Old > > and low powered like > > you wouldn't believe. I am writing this email > right > > now on a seven ( or > > eight? ) year old HP Kayak PC machine with a 400MHz > > processor. Works fine. > > > > I have weird low powered low cost VIA CoolStream > > based hardware and it > > works solid as a rock. > > > > I have, are you ready for this, an IBM Thinkpad model > > 390X with maybe > > 384MB of memory and I installed Solaris 10 GA in it. > > > > I have been running Solaris on x86 for about as long > > as it existed and it > > wasn't always easy to work with, but you really > have > > a large large large > > portion of the hardware that's out there to pick > > from. > > > > Dennis > > > I wonder if both the OP and you aren't spinning a bit. > x86 does indeed run on > quite a few platforms including older ones. But there are > doubtless also plenty > it doesn't run on, and plenty it runs on but > doesn't have the drivers to take full advantage > of. > > Probably good to check the HCL before spending time or > money; next best is if you > find something that works but isn't in the HCL, submit > the info so that the next person > will know. > > Driver situation has improved a lot. Most effort probably > goes to current hardware, > although independently developed drivers and ports from > *BSD might have helped out > some with older stuff too. Some hardware vendors help out, > but the base is so much > smaller than Windows that it's only a few by comparison > that bother. Porting from Linux > is usually impossible due to license differences, and often > might not be much help anyway > due to architectural differences. So IMO it won't get > any better than what Sun plus > peripheral vendors plus others want to pay for creating > drivers for (which usually means > what they see some profit in doing that for), plus what can > be readily ported from the *BSDs \ > or someone with the time and ability wants to write > themselves. > > So...doesn't suck, but there are bound to be other OSs > that can run on lots more odd or old > hardware. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
