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NOTICE: This version of the NSF Unidata web site (archive.unidata.ucar.edu) is no longer being updated.
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To learn about what's going on, see About the Archive Site.
Dan, My issue is that in many situations (especially where groups with PC's have to go to Unix) people are automatically pushed towards Linux..as I said partly because of the hype. As far as documentation goes..I went from knowing nothing about Unix to now having a full-time job as a sysadmin.. A ton of that knowledge was found at docs.sun.com. Solaris comes with Answerbook..all the documentation you need.. no need for $1000 worth of CD's. There are also plenty of good Solaris books out there. Also there is so little difference between Sparc and Intel Solaris that most of the info on Sunsolve applies to both. The 8GB limit on IDE drives in Solaris 7 was fixed in a patch quite some time ago..and Solaris 8 doesn't have that problem at all. Solaris is really intended for SCSI anyway. I won't argue on the hardware support..it stinks. Solaris was never more than $99 for universities.. and it's less now. The Solaris newsgroups are very helpful.. and there's tons of freeware. Anyway I just wanted to take that opportunity to possibly give an option to those folks just getting into Unidata and/or Linux..and want to stick with PC's. Robert Mullenax
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