Oh yeah, I knew I was forgetting one. (Well more than one if the new box is able to run BeOS, but I wasn't seriously considering BeOS right now anyhow.)
I'd been thinking about Solaris on a Sun. Talk to me about why I might want to run it instead of BSD or Linux on an x86 machine.
I just recently got a used Sparc machine for $75 plus shipping from RetroBox (http://www.retrobox.com/) a place in Ohio. In my case, I put NetBSD on it, which I'm coming to regret (the NetBSD/sparc64 port doesn't seem to have precompiled binary packages available beyond the stock distribution sets). Isn't Solaris now a free download (at least for non-commercial use)? Or was that just the x86 release?
You could run Solaris
Re: You could run Solaris
I'd been thinking about Solaris on a Sun. Talk to me about why I might want to run it instead of BSD or Linux on an x86 machine.
Re: You could run Solaris
RetroBox (http://www.retrobox.com/) a place in Ohio. In my
case, I put NetBSD on it, which I'm coming to regret (the NetBSD/sparc64
port doesn't seem to have precompiled binary packages available beyond
the stock distribution sets). Isn't Solaris now a free download (at least
for non-commercial use)? Or was that just the x86 release?
- Vicky