>> >> > 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
spinning ? come on over to my place and I'll show you Solaris 2.5.1 x86 still running on a Pentium P90 as well as OpenSolaris snv_98 running on a mother board that is nailed to the wall here. As well as my HP Kayak from 2000 that has been running with four SCSI controllers since 2002, and yes, one very small old IBM Thinkpad .. that too. there is no spin here ... why would there be? quite frankly .. get the CDROM and boot it. Most likely it will work well enough. Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
