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Hi all:

A newbie question:

Can anyone give an opinion for  comparison between Sparc (or Ultra sparc)
Solaris 8 and IA solaris 8?  I currently has a Sparc 20 machine running
solaris 8.  Thinking about installing IA solaris on a intel pc machine.

Any hardware installation problem/limitations and software limitations?  I
also appreciate any hyper links.

Thank you very much.

Chang

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Quote:> Any hardware installation problem/limitations and software limitations?  I
> also appreciate any hyper links.

Go to http://docs.sun.com (or whatever other site that has this info)
and check the hardware compatibility lists before buying anything new.
If you have a two year-old or so PC, it might work fine. If the
graphics card is not supported, that should not be a problem as long
as it is supported by XFree86 or AcceleratedX which work fine on
Solaris.

Alternatively, you can buy a $1000 Sun Blade 100 and run Solaris on
sparc hardware.

-akop