[GLLUG] Sun Machines

[Reza Beha]

The binaries are compatible, but I think the license permits OpenSolaris
releases to be made that are not.  Sun takes standards very seriously.

Man pages for fun readings: standards, intro, libucb

bash-2.03$ man standards

Standards, Environments, and Macros                  standards(5)

NAME
     standards, ANSI,  C,  ISO,  POSIX,  POSIX.1,  POSIX.2,  SUS,
     SUSv2, SVID, SVID3, XNS, XNS4, XNS5, XPG, XPG3, XPG4, XPG4v2
     - standards and specifications supported by Solaris

DESCRIPTION
     Solaris 7 supports IEEE Std 1003.1 and IEEE Std 1003.2, com-
     monly  known  as POSIX.1 and POSIX.2, respectively.


--- Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:

> I haven't had the privledge of running Sun hardware before.  What are the
> monitor and keyboard requirements on one of these?  Also, do you have the
> OS available?  While it would be an easy matter to put OpenBSD on these
> machines, I'd really like one so that I could release Solaris versions of
> CeaMuS.  Or does anybody know if OpenSolaris binaries are compatible with
> binaries from the regular commercial release?


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