[bdraft]

How well supported is Sun's x86 as far as drivers and such goes??

After I finish building my new PC, I was thinking of dual-booting Redmond's OS and a flavor of unix. I thought about using a flavor other than Linux. Any suggestions??

Also, does Sun's unix support 64bit x86 chips??

By the way, I am not trying to cause a flame-war or flavor disputes. I know that each unix has it's own following. Not asking about that....

thank you for your time;
bdraft

[brendandonhu]

Sun Solaris 10 supports x86-64.

If you don't want to go with Linux, I'd use a flavor of BSD.
Is this for a desktop or server?

[bdraft]

I was curious abut the AMD64 or EMT64 under Sun's flavor. It's suppose to be free and relatively stable.

Call me crazy or dumb, but I can't seem to get by the xBSD camp's mascot.
I also have problems with the name of the Open Source version of the UNIX under Apple's OS X (Darwin).

As far as what i'm going to do with it, one installation will be on another drive or partition of my new PC when ever I get it built and I'll be dual booting.
The other will be general use computer that I'm hoping to get away from using 98SE on since it may do some file serving and such.

thank you for your time;
bdraft

[brendandonhu]

Um, all the BSDs have different mascots. One is a fish, one is a dragonfly, one is a daemon and fork (two processes that run ANY Unix based OS) and one is a flag.
What does the logo have to do with anything?

[bdraft]

I was not aware of the dragonfly or the flag. Last i checed all of the "xBSD" (net, open, free) used some type of little devil that they called a daemon.
The fish is probably Darwin, which I take issue with the entire theory there of so I may have problems choking that down.

I'm Christian in beliefs and the thoughts of them on my computer bother me. Some version of a penguin or lizard (suse) is easier for me to take. I don't know if Sun has a logo for their OSes or not that is separate from their corporate logo.
In college there was a saying going around campus that said "SCO, Just say No".

I was just wondering about the drivers for more than the antique hardware, which flavors support the most of the newer hardware. Then again, I'm still considering a Radon 9800XT based video card "newer". It is newer than the ATI Radon 7000VE I'm running.

I wasn't trying to start a "race war" or anything...

thank you;
bdraft

[tsunam]

Opensource Solaris is not ready for true primetime use yet. It's got a good ways to go. Solaris has always been a unix that worked exceptionally well within confines. Now that it has in part been turned loose to be jointly developed with opensource..it has to learn to work on many many different products.

Now I am not a Sun employee, but know quite a few who are. Are programmers for Sun (well sun has a funky job rotation schedule so you do different tasks every few weeks or such), and suggest holding of at least til the next release of the opensource solaris.


If I had to pick a bsd, I'd go with either FreeBSD (great ports system, ie package manager..its almost exactly like portage for gentoo linux but some differences, some better some worse) or NetBSD

[CouchMaster]

I would go with the latest version of PCBSD ...

[brendandonhu]

Uh, its not a devil. Its a deamon...all UNIX based OSes (and Windows) run daemons.
What's wrong with Darwin anyway? Its just omputer software. I promise, it won't teach your children evolution

You're going to have trouble running a computer if you're against everything BSD for whatever reason, as BSD, Linux, and Windows all use BSD software.

[prunejuice]

We all learn to make comprimises when it comes to faith.

For example, I'm a Druid, and my wife is a Wiccan. She's always bothered by me changing the desktop's wallpaper to pics of trees and shrubs. She'll say, "Leave my pentagram wallpaper alone, you
son-of-a-birch!"

...to which I'll respond...

"For Goddess' sake honey, lighten up!"

You can't beat living with a witch, though.

[lynch]

Originally Posted by brendandonhu

Uh, its not a devil. Its a deamon...all UNIX based OSes (and Windows) run daemons.
What's wrong with Darwin anyway? Its just omputer software. I promise, it won't teach your children evolution

You're going to have trouble running a computer if you're against everything BSD for whatever reason, as BSD, Linux, and Windows all use BSD software.

Let's not mention read/write file permissions for owner, group and other, then.
lynch

[brendandonhu]

Originally Posted by lynch

Let's not mention read/write file permissions for owner, group and other, then.
lynch

I don't get it??

I was just avoiding mentioning "superuser". Better avoid Gentoo Linux as well - emerge -U world could be a problem.

[lynch]

666

[Squashman]

Originally Posted by lynch

666

Number of the Beast!

[brendandonhu]

Ohh I get it.
Well you could always chmod all daemoms to 666 and mv * /dev/null

[lynch]

there's a thought.