Alternative Operating Systems

[ViRaL1]

Solaris is not Linux. Solaris is a UNIX variant developed by Sun Microsystems. The primary hardware platform is Sun's SPARC/UltraSPARC processor family, which includes both 32- and 64-bit chips. Solaris is also available for Intel systems (Solaris-x86), but I don't think that has real 64-bit support yet. x86 isn't really an important platform for Solaris, I keep hearing talk about Sun just dropping it altogether.

That would be an interesting choice considering that Sun actually offers x86 based servers running Solaris.

[sterno]

Yeah, Sun's been having trouble making up their minds on what they want to do the past few years. They sell the same servers with either Solaris-x86 or Linux, but right now commercial server applications are probably more likely to be available for Linux than for Solaris-x86. It's mainly useful if you just need to add a few smaller servers to an existing Sun environment for Sun-bundled software or open source applications. Solaris is almost identical on both x86 and SPARC, so your current Sun admins can run the new systems but you can use cheap PC-class hardware.

[Faustus]

What this industry really needs is a free OS that runs linux in the background but its solid enough to hide it from users. Kinda like OSX does to BSD.

Then give it basic functions, office type products, edit video. mp3 player software with portable support. and crap like that.

Lock the OS down so it doesn't get messed up, apps much run as apps and not jack with the OS.

Give that away for free and watch it become standard on every ultra cheap PC out there.

[Dr. DOS]

i heard DOS is pretty solid these days

seriously though anybody had any experience with suse?

Yea, but what version. Personally it was solid at V5.0 -- smartdrv was at its best and himem.sys lets me really get access all that 1 meg o' ram.

[Faustus]

All I know is the DOS tools with VPC7 include the least memory intensive mouse and CDrom driver. Wow a 3000+ runs dos fast.

[Dr. DOS]

Drop in Norton Commander and you were good to go.

[Garibaldi]

Kinda like OSX does to BSD

OSX is based heavily off FreeBSD isn't it?

Speaking of Sun, has anyone heard of or tried this out:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1102179#1102179

[Faustus]

Kernel is.

[DereX888]

All I know is the DOS tools with VPC7 include the least memory intensive mouse and CDrom driver. Wow a 3000+ runs dos fast.

...and where would you find a card/tape puncher to program it?

[Faustus]

You joke until you see my Doom benchmarks.

[Garibaldi]

Has anyone tried topologilinux?
www.topologilinux.com

Its a slackware install that installs to an image file (but boots in "real mode") on your NTSF partition. Is there something like this for debian? Or for BSD? Or for Solaris? Or anything else?

Also are there any good free emulators similar to VMWare and Virtual PC?
I am already using Pear PC.