Hartmut Krafft schrieb: > Hi all, > > recently, someone gave me an Ultrasparc5 workstation, and I decided to give > it a try. Right now, it's running Debian Lenny quite nicely. But as there are > some annoyances with Linux on Sparc (some proprietary software not ported to > the platform), I tought about installing a newer version of Solaris. > The Solaris 9 that came with the computer is way out of date and I would have > to download a lot of patches (and I'm not even sure if all of them are > accessible w/o a service contract). Being condemned to a slow Internet > connection (64 kb/s), I refrained from this for the time being and decided to > apply for a free Opensolaris CD instead. This was a fortnight ago, and since > then, I didn't hear anything from Sun. > So, is anyone here who recently ordered such a CD and knows how long it might > take, or if I should give it another try? > > Sincerely, > Hartmut
Hi Hartmut, are you aware of the fact that OpenSolaris is currently x86 only? SPARC support seems to be planned for later this year, but is not there yet. Concerning CD shipments, it might be possible that your order was lost (wouldn't be the first time - I had such an experience before). One time when I received a free CD that I ordered from Sun I'm pretty sure it took more than two weeks (in Germany). Shipping to Russia might be different. - Thomas _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
