On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 13:13 -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote: > >On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 12:00 -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote: > >> Since Solaris has been 64 bit for about a decade... > > > >Linux ran on 64-bit Alpha a decade ago: > >http://lxr.linux.no/source/arch/?v=1.2.13 > > > >-- Dave > > Yes. They got there before Sun; but where are they now?
Opteron? Itanium? Sparc? MIPS? PowerPC? I'm pretty sure Linux can run on pretty much any 64-bit platform in existence, and has been able to do so for about as long as anyone else. Not saying that Sun doesn't have anything new to offer (I'm sure they do), but Solaris is hardly the end-all of operating systems, and Sun hardware isn't quite what they'd like you to think it is. Incidentally, didn't Sun cough up for a Unix license from SCO at some point? Wonder how that's going to affect this move. -- Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Portland Linux Users Group _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug
