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

From: GWS (one4sun_at_lios.apana.org.au)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:17:47 +0000 (UTC)

Chris Newport <crn.news@nospam.netunix.com> writes:

>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.

NetBSD for Sparc has full SMP now I believe? I don't have any MP Sparc-based
systems running *BSD otherwise I could probably give you some first-hand
commentary on the issue. 8-)

Craig. 

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