I was very amiss as to the history of Solaris. So thank you for that. That explains the why the prominence of the newer hardware. And of course makes sense. Ans as for the advanced features that's why I wanted to try and hopefully switch to Solaris. I had read much about the system and found it extremely attractive for my needs. Alas, then the old hardware gets in the way.
I think open source is certainly an extremely good decision for Sun because that development will occur for the older hardware. That's why I still have hope that someday soon I'll be able to run it on my current systems, well at least a couple of them anyway. And if not that soon at least when I do finally breakdown and get something newer, however my wife does accuse me of squeaking when I walk. As for the problems with installation they were numerous and my notes were hauled off in the trash two days ago. So I would have to go through installation again to give you an accurate account. In a few months I will be able to commit sometime to that but my schedule right now does not permit that. Thank you all and I will be back. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
