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Resources for Running Solaris OS on a Laptop
As Solaris gets more and more popular I’m seeing more and more people running Solaris on a laptop as their primary operating system. I’ve even got friends who have migrated over completely to Solaris from Linux. I’ve been using it for years and ma…
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Determining Solaris Support using Sun Device Detection Tool
Want to know whether your machine is capable of running Solaris? I came across the Sun Device Detection Tool, a Java application that you can run straight from the browser (it’s a JNLP app) that will check the devices on your machine and then comp…
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Using bash by default
I much prefer to use bash as my main shell, but in Solaris, you are much better off using the default shell, particularly for root, just in case there is a problem and you cannot mount the /usr directory during a boot. OK, it may not happen often …