On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote:

> no one in their right mind has attempted.  A feat of such daring and
> stupidity that few would even consider it.  I, Dennis Clarke, the
> great and mysterious masked midnight hacker, will dive into a build
> of OpenSolaris, the very latest rev folks, on a Pentium II old PC from
> 1998 with a 400MHz processor ( two of them actually ) and five, yes I
> said five SCSI controllers!  Wild and untamed and barely identified!

You're mad, I tell you, absolutely mad!  By the time that PII has finished
building build 41, build 61 will be available!  :-)

> I will post pictures and blog the process but suffice it to say that
> I want to kill this concept in peoples heads that you have to have
> super expensive Sun hardware in order to run "expensive and slow"

A fine idea.  I get many looks of surprise when I fire up Solaris on
my laptop...

> Solaris.  *barf* .. *gag* ..  And I know the X2100 is like $2K.

... and starts at half that.

>   ps: I don't smoke, never have, and my suit is not off the rack. :-)

I've seen the photo.  Keep it on the rack.  :-)

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Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

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