[OpenIndiana-discuss] New to the list + SPARC & OpenSolaris

[Bryan N Iotti]

I probably should have stated the original purpose of my inquiry :)

My question was if I could still use my version of Solaris 9 for "home 
hobby use"or if the new Oracle rules prevented me from it.

I have bought these machines to collect them and learn, so performance 
is not paramount.

I had used OpenIndiana virtualized in VBox and loved it. Mac was really 
starting to piss me off (even worse now), so I set out to learn more 
about what was constantly presented as the best in the business.
I thought that for about 100€ getting the chance to learn what it was 
like to use Solaris 9 on Sun hardware was a pretty good deal.

Now, better specs:

- The E250 has 6 18GB SCSI disks and 1.5GB Ram. I originally tried it on 
Debian, hated the front panel lights going everywhere. Installed Solaris 
9 and am very happy with it. Remote desktop is OK with XNest, save for a 
weird yellow color of some elements drawn onscreen. It also serves NFS 
pretty well, which helps me get stuff over to the Ultra 5 in a 
metaphorical snap.

- The Ultra5 has 2 Atlas 10K II 9Gb Disks with the Symbios dual channel 
PCI SCSI (best upgrade I ever did!), one with swap and /export/home and 
the other with /. Unfortunately, 128MB RAM is all I have for it right 
now, but it hardly gets used, so there's little swapping ;). Also 
running Solaris 9. SunFreeware has been very useful. StarOffice is 
installed. Biggest gripe is the frickin' Optical Mouse that needs the 
special pad. I printed it on transparent plastic and put a mirror under 
it. Barely works, but gets me by.

I thank you all for your answers and for the link to OSol SPARC! Went 
crazy trying to find it!

Bryan