[Aurora-sparc-user] Help all?

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Thursday 12 March 2009 05:17:16 am T. Ribbrock wrote:
> Second try - SPF didn't like my "From:" - grrrrrr....
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:27:41AM +0100, Jos van der Ende wrote:
> > You can try Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris,
>
> OpenSolaris is still not available for Sparc.
actually it is. at least there are developer builds available for the next 
release as well as Solaris Express Community Edition. (note ive not tried to 
use them at all)

> I have Solaris 10 on my U60, but coming from a Linux background, I'm
> still unimpressed - configuration and administration seems a lot more
> cumbersome when compared to e.g. Ubuntu (or even Aurora). Just getting
> some security patches installed takes a lot of patience and stamina...
> (unless you do it manually via command line, in which case you have to
> spend a lot of time pinpointing the correct patches). At least half of
> those problems will be related to habit, of course, but coming from
> Linux, it's not a straightforward transition.
> The biggest upside of running Solaris on Sparc, though, is that some
> applications are easier to get running, as "Solaris/Sparc" is better
> supported than "Linux/Sparc" or "*BSD/Sparc" by non-OSS developers.
> Things like Java and Flash used to be a problem there, if you need
> them - though I have not checked whether that's still the case.
There is no flash for Linux/SPARC  but the Fedora 9 tree has openjdk 1.6.0  so 
at least the java side now should just work. 

Dennis
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