[clue] OT: Anybody have a Solaris box I can borrow or buy?

Will will.sterling at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 15:18:22 MDT 2011


Sun was very good at keeping all of their SPARC chips and Solaris releases
binary compatible.  You should not have any problems other then the
questionable license status of the build box.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Mike Staver <staver at fimble.com> wrote:

>  That's exactly what I'm hoping for. For example, I found one of these for
> cheap:
>
> http://www.nasi.com/sun-blade_1500.php
>
> I don't know the exact specs of the machines running at work, but I figure
> compiling on 64 bit Solaris on this machine would run on the production
> machines in the office. But I've been wrong before...
>
>
> On 6/10/11 3:14 PM, Will wrote:
>
> There is a lot of stock out there that is of almost no value now due to
> Oracle's policy of not allowing companies to purchase Solaris licenses for
> used gear.  You should be able to get something on Ebay for next to nothing.
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Mike Staver <staver at fimble.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm needing a Sun server or workstation to compile Apache on on a
>> regular basis. I don't care how fast it is, specs are not important to
>> me. I just need a little bugger to run Solaris 10 so I can compile
>> Apache when a new source is released. We have some production Solaris
>> boxes at work, and for security reasons, we aren't allowed to have gcc
>> on there. Makes it hard to support our users that way :)
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