Re: teething probs with Sun Ultra 10 & Solaris 10


Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:

On 14 Aug 2006 10:48:18 -0700
"llothar" <llothar@xxxxxx> wrote:

And Linux and Windows supports old hardware very well. Pretty simple
to add a new NVidia to a 1998 machine, or a 800 GB IDE harddrive to an
secondary PCI controller.

I tried to upgrade the memory in a PIII/750 system from late 1999.
Unfortunately, it only takes 3 128MB SIMMs, and there's no BIOS upgrade
for the motherboard. I cannot upgrade the Slot 1 processor either(*).
The BIOS only sees a fraction of a 120GB disk drive. It runs Gnome
painfully slow. I could not consider using it as my desktop system.

I think we are talking about 2 different things here. Upgrading an old
hardware / any old hardware is a hassle. We've all faced that.

But for an OS to SUPPORT an old hardware - that's what is being
discussed here. BTW, I installed/used Slackware/FreeBSD/Debian Sarge on
a 1998 PC {200Mhz, 256MB & 40GB} and it was usable. {I am not a fan of
GNOME/KDE/OOo/Mozilla etc}.

Perhaps, future releases of Solaris can/should decouple the core OS
from the apps like evolution/JDS/Star Office/Mozilla.

.

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