OK, So Solaris 10 sucks.

Post #215,136 by pwhysall 7/16/05 12:59:48 PM Reply	OK, So Solaris 10 sucks. In a controlled environment where you want maximum Oracle love, it might be the shizzle, but as a playbox, it's arse; it's almost wilfully difficult, and all the admin tools that come with it are Java edifices of complexity. The GNOME 2.6 desktop is pretty, though, and Star Office 7 seems to be nice enough. So. That leaves me with a 1GHz P3, 256MB RAM and 20G disk to play with. What to install? Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #215,137 by Another Scott 7/16/05 1:15:52 PM Reply	The perfect tool. [link\|http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7169436885&category=4619&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1\|Here]. (Speaking of Sun, it looks like they got eBay's business from IBM. Hmmm.) You'll probably need [link\|http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-viewer?sh=1&fname=/pub/os2/system/drivers/storage/danis506r173.zip\|danis506] to install on that large a disk. What's that you say? Oh, "OS/2 is so 1995"? Well, maybe. OK, if you don't want Warp, there's eCS but it's similar. It's [link\|http://www.ecomstation.co.uk/html/prices.html\|100 lbs] as an upgrade from Warp 4. Maybe a bit pricey as a play OS. You've got Winders, OS X, and know Linux. What else is there? Well, yeah, there's always *BSD but I imagine it would have issues similar to what you encountered with Solaris. Dunno. There aren't too many other OS choices. Seriously, OS/2 would be a very good choice for that machine. It would fly on it. Warp 3 Connect was pretty snappy on a 486 with 64 MB of RAM. HTH. Cheers, Scott.
Post #215,138 by pwhysall 7/16/05 1:27:04 PM Reply	100 lbs? The postage must be pricey :-) Seriously, though, OS/2 hadn't floated through my brain. Now it has. Hmm. /me ponders. I wonder if Novell do a hobbyist version of Netware? Plan 9? Anyone used this in anger? FreeBSD, I found, was annoying; its philosophy of "We only care about the base system, all the stuff you need to do real work is in ports and good luck with that" (this is why the very reason your computer exists, for example Exim, ends up in /usr/local) and getting it to work sensibly with anything resembling a modern graphics card is insane. Configuring sound requires a kernel rebuild. This is 2005, not 1995. Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #215,141 by Another Scott 7/16/05 3:03:50 PM Reply	Yeah, I'm lazy. It took me long enough to find "pi" in my earlier post today. I've never needed £ before, so I didn't know how to do it. That's another new thing I've learned today. ;-) Back to the topic at hand. Become l33t3r than ever by running Hurd! [link\|http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html\|It's built to survive]. It seems to be at v0.2 now. Let us know how you do with it, OK? :-D Cheers, Scott.
Post #215,144 by boxley 7/16/05 3:14:53 PM Reply	use quid instead of lbs Just call me Mr. Lynch \\ Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #215,148 by Another Scott 7/16/05 3:41:07 PM 7/16/05 3:41:32 PM Reply	D'oh. Thanks. Edited by Another Scott July 16, 2005, 03:41:32 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #215,269 by static 7/17/05 10:21:22 PM Reply	Your FreeBSD experience matches mine. I was distinctly unimpressed with ports. (We had a few concerns when things would say "Sorry, this version is broken." instead of making!) I'm glad I tried it, though: now I know just how good apt-get and dpkg really are. Wade. Save Fintlewoodlewix
Post #215,139 by boxley 7/16/05 1:41:27 PM Reply	sol 10 comes with admin tools? been using it for 4 months and the cli works just fine. Its mostly playbox, my desktop at work where I eval and play about with software. I suspect you are talking about an Intel box? Havnt looked at that yet. thanx, bill Just call me Mr. Lynch \\ Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #215,153 by CRConrad 7/16/05 4:41:51 PM Reply	Yeah, "Pentium 3" usually means an Intel box. HTH! ;-)
Post #215,155 by boxley 7/16/05 4:43:06 PM Reply	reading for comprehension, thanx Just call me Mr. Lynch \\ Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #215,161 by CRConrad 7/16/05 6:09:46 PM Reply	You're welcome.
Post #215,360 by pwhysall 7/18/05 12:43:06 PM Reply	<muntz>Ha Ha</muntz> Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!

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