[Sunhelp] FW: Solaris 8 Early Access Program!

[james]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Bill Bradford wrote:

> I announced this on SunHelp about a month or so ago, and I've even got my
> initial reviews/thoughts (I'm running it now) up on the web site.  So far,
> it seems a LOT nicer - not that many changes, but on a sun4u system it seems
> about 25% faster than Solaris7, and StarOffice DEFINITELY runs a LOT faster.

One important gotcha.  If you're using the audioens driver for audio on a
PCI machine (using an ES1370 based card such as the SoundBlaster PCI64)
then any access to the audio device will panic the system.  Writing up a
bug report now.

-James