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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Stupid question... Post 11435 by doeboy on Wednesday 5th of December 2001 11:41:17 AM
Old 12-05-2001
All you really need is a PC if you want to learn UNIX.

You could get a copy of Linux and put it on the PC. There's a pretty wide selection of drivers that people have made for lots of hardware for Linux, so it should not be too difficult to find drivers for whatever you have (as long as it isn't too much on the bleeding edge).

If you want to run Solaris on a PC, I'd check with the Hardware Compatibilty List for Solaris 8 on Sun's website.

If you want to run it on Sparc architecture, then you need to somehow acquire a Sun (through Sun, eBay, computer swap meet, etc etc...)

Hope this helps a little
 

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clprivnet(7)					     Sun Cluster Device and Network Interfaces					      clprivnet(7)

NAME
clprivnet - SUNW,clprivnet Sun Cluster private network driver SYNOPSIS
/dev/clprivnet DESCRIPTION
Note - Beginning with the Sun Cluster 3.2 release, Sun Cluster software includes an object-oriented command set. Although Sun Cluster software still supports the original command set, Sun Cluster procedural documentation uses only the object-oriented command set. For more infor- mation about the object-oriented command set, see the Intro(1CL) man page. The SUNW,clprivnet Sun Cluster private network driver is a STREAMS pseudo driver supporting Sun Cluster resident applications that use standard Solaris interfaces to communicate over the Sun Cluster private network. By striping data traffic over all links, this driver opti- mally utilizes the bandwidth of the private network while supporting highly available, software fault-tolerant communication. APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
The driver is supported by the character-special device /dev/clprivnet, but is reserved for Sun Cluster internal operation and the standard Solaris network utilities. This interface must not be directly used for general application communication. ADMINISTRATION
The administration and configuration of the driver as a network interface is done completely by the Sun Cluster infrastructure internals. FILES
/dev/clprivnet clprivnet special character device /usr/kernel/drv/clprivnet.conf System-wide default device driver properties Sun Cluster 3.2 05 Sep 2007 clprivnet(7)
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