05-23-2002, 06:29 PM
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Maybe I'll install this on my Dell...
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05-23-2002, 09:42 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Rockville, MD
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Oh cool, thanks! I love DVD's. Does it have Dolby Digital or DTS encoding?
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05-23-2002, 11:16 PM
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cool, ever since I started to sell SUN, I have wanted the OS
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05-24-2002, 12:51 AM
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Arrrhh!
  
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Solaris is really nothing to write home about for the average user. I use it every day at work; it's great for technical applications and for working in teminal/console windows, but the average home user has no real use for the operating system.
Just an FYI so you aren't disappointed. 
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05-24-2002, 02:49 AM
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For all you folks out there considering this realize Solaris is a lot more unforgiving about the parts it will run with. http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/hcl/index.html |
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05-24-2002, 09:47 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Pekin, IN
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For those of you with SPARC hardware, you can also download Solaris 8 for free from: http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html
They used to have the Intel version there, but it's been pulled. Also you will be able to download Solaris 9 from them sometime in the near future. |
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05-24-2002, 10:10 AM
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05-24-2002, 10:43 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Thanks anyway!
 Free is better than...having to pay lots of money, or something like that....
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05-25-2002, 10:03 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Redondo Beach, CA
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If you're thinking of using it on your PEE-CEE, don't bother ordering it -- Solaris 9 ONLY runs on Sparc hardware.. There was even something about it within the last few days on /. (slashdot) and how Sun dropped support for x86 hardware.. Probably got tired of writing drivers for cards that came & went..
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05-26-2002, 03:19 AM
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05-26-2002, 04:34 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: San Ramon, CA, USA
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Nice find!
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05-26-2002, 04:36 PM
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