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Solaris 10 1/06

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Just updated to Solaris 10 1/06 on my laptop.

Notable changes: grub is used instead of old boot assistant and console is not white on black :)
Still not convinced why Java Desktop System is better than CDE :-) Installed firefox 1.5.0.1, thunderbird 1.5 and a bunch of stuff from Solaris Companion DVD (just needed pico or nano but finally I did install about 300MB…) Old habits die hard!

Very usable system, StarOffice just works, still no sound (audio810 does not work as advertised, everybody says it should work ‘out of the box’ on my hardware).

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IP aliases in Solaris

Sunday, December 4th, 2005


ifconfig iprb0:1 plumb
ifconfig iprb0:1 A.B.C.D netmask E.F.G.H up

to enable at boot time:
put host_name in /etc/hostname.iprb0:1 and add host_name entry in /etc/hosts, perhaps in /etc/netmasks if you don’t use a canonical netmask.

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Solaris desktop

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

From yesterday I am using Solaris 10 on my laptop. I’ve removed Windows and FreeBSD. Works like a charm (except sound), includes StarOffice, I’ve installed Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice. No problems so far. CDE with DarkGold color theme is my favourite for almost eight years, since I’ve installed Solaris 1.0beta on a SUN Workstation.

uname -a output:

SunOS laptop 5.10 Generic_118844-20 i86pc i386 i86pc

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