On 2015-07-12 21:41, David Holland wrote:
Has Oracle changed its position with regards to patch availability for
the freely available downloads of Solaris x86?
Last I heard, patches were not available with out a support contract.
( Granted, HP is no better with its position towards VMS patches, but
at least (last I checked) VMS wasn't terribly attractive option for
the script kiddies. )
Unfortunately, as far as I know, if you want a free (as in beer)
patched Unix-alike, your choices are a Linux based distribution, or a
Linux based distribution. Which is unfortunate.
Here's hoping someone will set out to prove me wrong. :-)
If you want to run on a VAX or Alpha, I don't think Linux even is an
option. You'll have to go with some BSD. NetBSD and OpenBSD both have
support, although if we talk VAXen, I think the support is slightly
better in NetBSD.
Johnny
David
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drw...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello!
Solaris also runs on SPARC. I have it running here on that. And yes
sadly Intel based Solaris is still a performance hog.
But its nice to know someone else is out there. Welcome to the party
Gary Lee Phillips.
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Gary Lee Phillips
<tivo.ov...@gmail.com> wrote:
As far as I know, Solaris these days only runs on Intel hardware. I've
tried it there, and it seems to devote way too much processor power
and memory to making pretty windowed screen displays (a weakness it
shares with most Linux distributions.)
I guess I didn't make it clear that I'm looking for UNIX to run on VAX
or Alpha hardware platforms.
On 7/12/15, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <j...@jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote:
El 12/07/2015, a les 13:52, Gary Lee Phillips <tivo.ov...@gmail.com> va
escriure:
I keep looking for a way to get a "real" UNIX going, hence the ULTRIX
experiment. As far as I can tell, neither Tru64 nor HP-UX have any
Wouln’t solaris qualify as a “real” UNIX?
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