Re: Which version/OS to install on Netra i20 (SS20)/22

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:37:42 -0600

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:36:08 +0000, Ronnie Corny wrote:

> thanks for the input... so, Sol9 is better than Sol7 or 8? I mean, for the
> purpose of just running BIND, Sendmail, Apache and POPserver.

There are many improvements in Solaris 9 relative to the earlier versions,
not the least of which is faster disk access with logging enabled.

> I mean, if i go the solaris avenue and not netbsd...

NetBSD is a pretty good OS except for the methods required to keep it
updated. Its SMP scalability is hardly in the class of Solaris and
besides you already stated:

"since it's dual proc, I don't think BSD is the answer"

> also, is it easier to get precompiled binaries for sol7, sol8 or sol9? i just
> remember it was quite difficult to get gcc working well in my sol9 setup
> before...

To install gcc all you had to do was download Sun's freeware packages, add
/opt/sfw/bin to your $PATH and '-L/opt/sfw/lib -R/opt/sfw/lib' to your
$LDFLAGS.

$ pkginfo | grep SFW
system SFWdb1 Berkeley DB - database library
system SFWgcc gcc - GNU Compiler Collection
system SFWgcmn gcmn - Common GNU package

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