[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

Jacob Ritorto jacob.ritorto at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 18:09:52 UTC 2015


Hi,
  My Solaris 11 install is getting a little long in the tooth and I still
use this poor old machine kind of a lot for small development, pdp11
emulation and its real serial ports, etc.  I would like to keep it because
it's pretty low power, reliable as dirt, and still supports the very
comfortable Sun type 4 unix keyboard, which I still feel a little paralyzed
trying to do without.  I'm running into problems with new software (CSW, in
particular) wanting more recent libs than the OS has.  So I guess (*sigh*)
it's time to update the OS bits.

  Is it feasible to install Hipster or OI on such a meagerly appointed
machine?  I don't even have a dvd player; just cd.

SunOS beep 5.11 snv_65 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
Memory size: 256 Megabytes

thx
jake


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