[rescue] FW: WTT: 1.5G of PC2700 for 1G of PC100]

[Michael C. Vergallen]

Jochen Kunz wrote:
> Sure. If you have sparc64 hardware, you are used to Solaris and you are
> already running Solaris, why switch to an other OS if there is no
> immediate need? Never change a runing system! :-)
> Especially as sparc64 hardware is designed to run Solaris and Solaris
> is designed to run on sparc64 hardware.
>   
Your statement is a generalization, you seem to ignore that sometimes 
one would switch os on old 64 bit Hardware
 who doesn4t have support in solaris 10 anymore to Netbsd or a other os 
just because of the security risks involved.


Michael
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Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 21:35:26 +0200
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Jochen Kunz wrote:
> Sure. If you have sparc64 hardware, you are used to Solaris and you are
> already running Solaris, why switch to an other OS if there is no
> immediate need? Never change a runing system! :-)
> Especially as sparc64 hardware is designed to run Solaris and Solaris
> is designed to run on sparc64 hardware.
>   
Yes & No ... I would switch old 64 bit Hardware who doesn4t have support 
in solaris 10 anymore to Netbsd
just because of the security risks involved so if you have older Sun 
equipment like Ultra 1, or Ultra  2 equipment
that has older Ultra cpus I would switch OS on them for security 
reaseons. Becuase Solaris 9 is EOLed and has no
patches being produced  anymore.