Solaris 10 Free

Grok · February 17, 2005, 03:59 PM

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but SUN released Solaris 10 for free.

Download Solaris 10

effect · February 17, 2005, 10:33 PM

great, now all i need is a S.P.A.R.C system.

tA-Kane · February 18, 2005, 12:29 AM

I saw a couple of (most likely very old) SPARC systems at an old warehouse about a week ago. I could probably get them for a fair price...

Grok · February 18, 2005, 06:23 AM

Quote from: effect on February 17, 2005, 10:33 PM
great, now all i need is a S.P.A.R.C system.

In case you're not joking, it runs on x86.

quasi-modo · February 18, 2005, 05:20 PM

Quote from: Grok on February 18, 2005, 06:23 AM
Quote from: effect on February 17, 2005, 10:33 PM
great, now all i need is a S.P.A.R.C system.

In case you're not joking, it runs on x86.

It runs like crap on x86 though from what I have seen / heard. Solaris is best when used on SPARC.

Hostile · February 20, 2005, 01:03 AM

You've always been able to get solaris binaries for free as long as I've known. And yes x86 is actually now as ideal of platform for it as SPARC.

MyndFyre · February 20, 2005, 03:22 AM

Quote from: quasi-modo on February 18, 2005, 05:20 PM
Quote from: Grok on February 18, 2005, 06:23 AM
Quote from: effect on February 17, 2005, 10:33 PM
great, now all i need is a S.P.A.R.C system.

In case you're not joking, it runs on x86.
It runs like crap on x86 though from what I have seen / heard. Solaris is best when used on SPARC.

I had a copy of Solaris 7 which ran fairly well on x86.

Hostile · February 21, 2005, 10:12 PM

what I meant was in Solaris 10 they added alot of various support features to x86 processors, including support for new processor features like multithreading and x86-64 processors.

Mephisto · February 21, 2005, 10:49 PM

Who manufactors SPARC processors? I've never seen any before; then again, I'm not much of a hardware person...

tA-Kane · February 22, 2005, 05:35 AM

I'm not sure who designs the SPARC processors, but there's a number of SPARC processors that are manufactured at the Texas Instruments building near here.

Mephisto · February 22, 2005, 09:08 AM

Quote from: tA-Kane on February 22, 2005, 05:35 AM
I'm not sure who designs the SPARC processors, but there's a number of SPARC processors that are manufactured at the Texas Instruments building near here.

Are they comparable to Intel or AMD processors in terms of speed and performance?

Banana fanna fo fanna · February 22, 2005, 09:27 AM

IIRC, they're server or embedded systems chips...I've heard they're good, but costly.

Thing · February 22, 2005, 01:38 PM

Solaris on SPARC kicks all ass.

quasi-modo · February 22, 2005, 04:19 PM

Quote from: Thing on February 22, 2005, 01:38 PM
Solaris on SPARC kicks all ass.

From posts in here it looks like sun has been working to improve x86 performance. But to me it just seems like solaris has been historically used only when you order a sparc box right from sun....

Quote from: SoR-Mephisto on February 22, 2005, 09:08 AM
Quote from: tA-Kane on February 22, 2005, 05:35 AM
I'm not sure who designs the SPARC processors, but there's a number of SPARC processors that are manufactured at the Texas Instruments building near here.

Are they comparable to Intel or AMD processors in terms of speed and performance?

It is kind of like apples to oranges. Sparc is a different creature. It is easier to compare something like EPIC to x86 because EPIC was designed to be similar to x86 but better (and it did not really turn out according to plan).

tA-Kane · February 22, 2005, 09:18 PM

Quote from: Banana fanna fo fanna on February 22, 2005, 09:27 AM
IIRC, they're server or embedded systems chips...I've heard they're good, but costly.

Server chips at $10,000 per chip for the latest ones. Yeah... that's costly.