[ale] OT: Solaris 9/x86

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> I would like to purchase a standard cheap computer from Ginstar
> to run Solaris 9 on.  Has anyone attempted to run Solaris 9 on x86?  My
> biggest concern would be with video support.  Did they remove CDE?

The newest revs include both CDE and Gnome, but default to CDE. Earlier 
releases of 9 only included CDE, and you had to download Gnome 2.0 (yeah, 
2.0. Sun moves slowly) from Sun.

The standard problem with Solaris/x86 (other than a lack of performance ;-) 
is always hardware support. Check the list of supported hardware closely 
before you buy. <http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/>

later,
chris