Re: End of "Free" Solaris binary licence program - now it's free.

From: Chris Newport (crn.news_at_nospam.netunix.com)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 20:45:07 +0000

Casper H.S. *** wrote:
> Chris Newport <crn.news@nospam.netunix.com> writes:

>>The only other viable option for older machines is Linux, but this does
>>not help those who want to learn about Solaris. There are also other
>>issues such as FC25 and Sun4d SMP support which are not stable in Linux.
>
> There are a lot of issues with Linux on SPARC; you might be better
> of running one of the BSDs.

What issues are you referring to ? - maybe they have been resolved.
The 2.4.29 kernel is now stable on everything except Sun4d SMP, AFAIK
the only other significant problem is FC25, the drivers do not have a
maintainer and are stuck at 2.2.x. (VOLUNTEERS WANTED).

Sun4m SMP now works well in Linux, this is missing from BSD.

Sparc32 support is not yet ready in Linux 2.6, this is work in progress
but the 64 bit Ultrasparc 1 series work just fine.

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