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If you only want a system for training purposes, something like a SunBlade 150 will do. Just ensure that it comes with the System Configuration Card. A regular PC display, mouse and keyboard will...

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Corona688 already pointed out that driver issues shouldn't be a problem with virtualized environment. All I can add is that VirtualBox for many years was (and still is) developed by the same company...

That shouldn't matter if you install into a virtual environment.

Ignoring virtualization for the moment, what the CPU is mostly isn't too important. Any standard consumer PC will be x86 or...

You'll want a CPU with virtualization/hypervisor support of course, but beyond that, hardware requirements for a small home server really aren't that bad. The more RAM the better, though that's true...

It is snappy, but it has a bit higher memory requirements than Linux. 1GB assigned to virtual machine is minimum for good Solaris performance. So the more RAM you will have in your workstation the...

I would say go for PC version. To be more precise, go for Solaris installed in VirtualBox or VMware. IMO, for testing/learning purposes it is much better solution. If you break something, you can...

You agreed not to bump posts when you registered. And if you didn't know then you really should know now as it looks like you've been deleted for it once already. We're not "on call". And I've...

Yes, you can. It often ends up as just a package like everything else, capable of being upgraded and replaced. You can even update it outside the package manager, just putting the right files in...

The closest thing Linux has to a central repository is the kernel source itself(and the information provided by make menuconfig). But it's usually chipset-oriented, not device-oriented -- it will...

It's not like windows where you install one specific driver and have to use that hardware for life or it'll try to reconfigure itself. Linux decides which drivers to load at runtime with little to...

I've known for a long time that device files are in /dev. However, I forget how I came to know that. So remember this thread!! Then when someone asks you 30 years from now how you knew that...

lsmod shows which modules are using what other modules, though not as a tree.

It's not always as simple as one module for one device. USB needs a whole bunch of modules to do anything, plus...

The exact answer depends on the OS. I gather from your name that you are interested in Linux. With Linux, lsmod can provide a list of modules and modinfo can give you a description of a module. ...

For better or worse it is very easy to be sure that the tires are spinning at the same rate but much harder to know what the rate is. In the clock example, you need a piece of code to read the...

It's generally the norm for the system clock to be UTC, and the timezone itself to be calculated from the TZ variable, or /etc/localtime, or other means.

I guess this is why it would be good to specify what version of Linux is involved. I am using RedHat. We install from a local server with some customizations, but I believe that the code I am...

I don't see anything in my boot scripts that uses hwclock to read the clock, so I think the Linux kernel actually consults the hardware clock itself on boot. But you've got the right idea: Read the...

No. :p First of all I was saying what I hoped would happen...there are lots of different configurations out there. Who mentioned "date" command? I said hwclock. If ntp server is available,...

There's only one system time, it doesn't use different "time sources". NTP is just used to adjust it once in a while.

The BIOS clock and the system clock aren't the same thing though. The system...

The straight answer to your question is "whatever time is held in the RTC chip". There is nowhere else that the Operating System can obtain the time.


Assuming your CMOS battery is good.
Your...

Further to pludi who has already answered the question.

The Real Time Clock in a computer can be implemented in many ways. This link and the links off the link are good background reading....

Yes, the BIOS clock (hardware clock) is used, otherwise you wouldn't have any time at all. The date command can set the hardware clock, but you need to tell it explicitly to set the time, and what...

See my article on file permissions here (https://www.unix.com/tips-tutorials/19060-unix-file-permissions.html).