OT PC > linux

Or if you want a third choice you can download x86 Solaris for nothing from Sun and get a 'traditional' Unix OS.

Cheers

Bill

On a machine with 23MB RAM? Are you mad?

Solaris x86 isn't a decent performer on modern hardware. I remeber running it on P60s and never want to go back there.

P.

No, he's not mad, just wierd :0) Anyone who *wants* to run solaris is wierd :0)

`Agrippa

blimey. . . so to iterate the linux is to play with, im sticking to w.2000 because i learned THE lesson after many many months of fiddling with w.95, if it aint broke dont fix it, and w.2000 is prety good considering how much i ask it do. that said have you sen how easy it is to network the execrable xp. . . gonna put a few folk out of work id imagine!

thanks for all your advice, what is it with landys and computers??? and does anybody here know where i can get some advice on my land rover??!

t :0] x

Solaris x86 isn't a decent performer on _any_ hardware.

I did ran Solaris 8, for a while, on a Thinkpad 600.

The install was ... amusing to say the least. It did not help that the "Install" CD did not work as expected, so you had to deduct somehow that you actually wanted to boot from the second CD.

The defalut Xserver was a mess, but there was an alternative one, based on Xfree86 sources that worked, on the supplementary software CD.

The only PCCard NIC that would work was discontiuned 3com model, i ended up buying one at a garage sale.

Once i got everything working, it was not that bad, but i could not find any compelling reason to prefer it to Linux or FreeBSD, unless you absolutely want CDE (Solaris software developers mingt want to check it out, however).

Regards, Roberto de Iriarte