[geeks] Solaris 10 x86

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Bryan Fullerton wrote:
> I could probably post about this to the sunhelp list, but figured I'd
> probably get more of the answers I was looking for here... :)
> 
> I have several servers running FreeBSD and am contemplating moving to
> Solaris 10 x86. Mostly this is because I'm a little leery of how
> FreeBSD development is progressing (lots of core developers no longer
> seem to have time to fix critical issues), and Solaris 10 has neato
> things like containers that seem more fully developed than FreeBSD's
> jail.
> 
> However, I'm really going to miss the FreeBSD ports. Sunfreeware is a
> good bootstrap, but it only gets you so far.
> 
> Anyone have any pros/cons for Solaris 10 x86, and advice about
> gotchas? My primary servers are Dell PE2850's (PERC 4e/i) and I have
> some HP NetServers (no RAID). They're used for web serving (Apache,
> PHP, MySQL/Postgres). I'm installing a test server in my basement now
> on a HP NetServer LP1000r, and will start playing with it
> tonight/tomorrow.

If you're missing the ports collection, I believe there's a cure.

The pkgsrc works under Solaris/x86, if I remember correctly.

Peace...  Sridhar