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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Completely new to unix Post 55150 by rhfrommn on Friday 3rd of September 2004 12:57:57 PM
Old 09-03-2004
I think you have it a bit backwards on Solaris x86. The problem is it doesn't run on a big variety of PC hardware so for casual use it isn't as easy as linux or one of the BSDs since your hardware might have problems. You can't throw it on any old PC and expect it to work perfectly or be stable if you do get it working.

But for production use where you will be installing it on harware certified by Sun to work with it, Solaris x86 is a good as you can get. Very stable and mature, and with tons of tools you don't get on other versions of Unix. And I'm pretty sure if you are installing it on certified hardware Sun will even sell you support just like they will for Sparc Solaris.

However, I'm guessing that isn't what the OP is after, so your suggestions for a home PC version of Unix are just fine.
 

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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

ibtl

ibtl(7D)							      Devices								  ibtl(7D)

NAME

       ibtl - Solaris InfiniBand Transport Layer

DESCRIPTION

       InfiniBand (IB) is an I/O technology based on switched fabrics. The Solaris InfiniBand Transport Layer (IBTL) is a Solaris kernel misc mod-
       ule and adheres to the IB Architecture Version 1.1 specification and provides a transport layer abstraction to IB client drivers.

       IBTL implements the programming interfaces for the Solaris InfiniBand Transport Framework (IBTF), consisting of the  IB	Channel  Interface
       (CI) and the IB Transport Interface (TI).

       The  CI	consists  of  Host  Channel Adapters (HCAs) and HCA drivers. A host is attached to the IB fabric through the CI layer. The Solaris
       InfiniBand CI is Sun's API rendering of the InfiniBand Architecture (IBTA) "verbs" specification.

       The Solaris InfiniBand TI is the kernel service driver interface into the Solaris InfiniBand Transport Framework. It provides transport and
       communications setup programming interfaces for Unreliable Datagram (UD) and Reliable Connected (RC) transport types only.

FILES

       /kernel/misc/ibtl

	   32-bit x86 ELF kernel misc module

       /kernel/misc/amd64/ibtl

	   64-bit x86 ELF kernel misc module

       /kernel/misc/sparcv9/ibtl

	   64-bit SPARC ELF kernel module

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for a description of the following attribute:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE		     |ATTRIBUTE VALUE		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Consolidation Private	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWhea, SUNWib		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       attributes(5), ib(7D), ibcm(7D), ibdm(7D)

       InfiniBand Architecture Specification, Volume 1: Release 1.1

SunOS 5.10							    9 Oct 2004								  ibtl(7D)
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