Solaris 10

macwhizard

Anyone using Solaris 10 on non-sun hardware ?. I've have downloaded the whole thing, but no supported hardware

sprkymrk

I tried the OpenSolaris for Intel hardware. Didn't much care for it. CentOS/Fedora are more to my liking for Linux, and FreeBSD for Unix.

Here is a link to the Solaris 10 for x86 platform:
http://solaris-x86.org/

Here is the Open Solaris site:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/

macwhizard

well, i have OpenSolaris too, it isn't supported on the hardware i have . may be i should wait for PPC version.

My idea is to get Sun certification..... so better get hands on Sun Solaris.

Slowhand

I've used Solaris 10 on x86 hardware successfully. I had the same thought, wanted to get SCSA certified. Solaris can be. . . err. . . "finicky", to say the least.

mikey_b

I used VMWare to run Solaris x86 and it worked great!

macwhizard

Slowhand wrote:

Solaris can be. . . err. . . "finicky"

you mean x86 hardware support or the OS itself ?.

mikey_b wrote:

I used VMWare

isn't that expensive ?. did anyone use freeware virtualisation apps(qemu, virtual PC, etc..) ?.

blackzone

mikey_b wrote:

I used VMWare

isn't that expensive ?. did anyone use freeware virtualisation apps(qemu, virtual PC, etc..) ?.[/quote]

I paid $$ for the version 4. Now version 5 is out and they don't even have an upgrade for it. You have to pay full money again.

I dont' endorse illegal activity, but I should just use some assembly tool to skip the regstration check.