Hi,
Matthew French:
> Declan Houlihan mentioned:
> > We're actually investigating switching from Sparc/Solaris to
> > Intel/Linux.
Boo hisss *duck* :)
> Well, why not try Linux on Sparc. <snip>
>
> And you get a working version of your favourite KDE/Gnome desktop instead of
> DTE, uhm, I mean CDE.
um.. http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/gnome/ integrated into solaris.
Of course then there's http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/ for
solaris 9 which gives you afterstep and windowmaker among other stuff. My
personal favourite at the moment is enlightenment which also has Solaris
packages available for download.
> > Basically the whole installation procedure is
> > "boot net - install"
> Talking of which, you can install Sparc Linux using this technique as well.
> The image takes a while to load, but once this is done you can install in
> the normal fashion.
Out of curiosity, does `normal fashion` mean that you still have to do the
interactive customisations or is it like Solaris jumpstart where you can
specify everything on the install server, do `boot net - install` go home, and
come in to a fully installed and patched desktop the next morning?
> There are minor problems: like the serial console drivers, but for workstation
> installs I suspect it will work fine.
I don't see why this should be a _major problem. The prom (ie the "ok" prompt)
is almost at the hardware level and hence dosent depend on the os so you
should be able to connect to that easily enough. Once the machine is installed
cant you just log in over the network? The network is the computer after all
(sorry couldn't resist!)
valen@tuatha.org said:
> side, Sun's terminal handling leaves a lot to be desired - it won't
> work properly on a Wyse 120+ for instance, no matter what emulation
> mode the Wyse is trying to do.
hmm... I'm not familiar with wyse stuff, but I only need to use the console
when something breaks, then anything capable of something basic like vt100 at
9600 8n1 seems to work  . Not sure why you'd need to worry about this much
really, just set up jumpstart to install automatically then you don't need to
look at the console at all.
Cheers,
~Al
--
Expressed in this posting are my opinions.  They are in no way related
to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems.
Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may
be fiction rather than truth.
--
Irish Linux Users' Group: ilug@linux.ie
http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information.
List maintainer: listmaster@linux.ie