Re: Sun killing Solaris, your SPARC comments seem to be fud

From: Lion-O (nosp_at_m.catslair.org)
Date: 07/31/05 

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:43:53 -0000

> Trying not to jump to conclusions is one thing - but I started playing
> with Solaris (x86) just before the 'There will be no 9 for x86' mess.
> The only major difference this time is that I now have a collection of
> SPARC hardware where if I want a reasonably up to date patched
> version, I have to use Solaris Express.

I think you're spreading fud.

While I do agree and acknowledge that the 'smpatch' issue is a bit
strange at times, your comments about Solaris Express are sounding like
a nice troll to me.

This evening I just finished installing Solaris 10 3/5 on my latest
purchase; a Sun Blade 100. Everything is setup and right now I'm
enjoying a remote X login session from my Debian workstation. So far, so
good.

I just setup smpatch on the Blade to utilize my Squid proxy server
(running on Solaris 10/x86) and started "smpatch analyze". This resulted
in a large list of available patches, and not merely security based
since I also saw Gnome and Mozilla patches passing my screen. I just
started an 'update' so that my Blade is soon up to date.

Still, I do agree that something odd is going on. At this moment my
Blade is happily grabbing patches (however, I get a lot of "installer
cannot find the patch" errors) but my x86 box only responds with:

magi:/home/peter $ smpatch analyze
Failure: Cannot connect to retrieve Database/current.zip: Server
returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL:
https://getupdates.sun.com/solaris/

Considering the fact that I have a service plan yet have no idea how I
can enable my Sparc update I do agree that things are rather fuzzy. 

-- 
Groetjes, Peter
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