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Old 01-18-2002
Save Solaris x86
Anyone who uses, has used, or would like to use Solaris on Intel-compatible hardware should rush right over to this site:
http://www.save-solaris-x86.org/

If you want it, make sure you speak up!
# 2  
Old 01-18-2002
Thanks for the URL LivinFree.
We have been using Solaris 8 on Intel for
about 6 months now and are very pleased.
I'd hate to see it go. I guess Sun wants
to sell more SPARCs Smilie
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Old 01-19-2002
While Sun hardware has gotten very reasonably priced compared to the past, there are a lot of Solaris X86 installations and applications out there. I am afraid that this will hurt Sun, while helping the Linux community. Is there a port of Linux to Sparc?
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Old 01-19-2002
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/dis.../ultrapenguin/

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/matrix/

Others possible:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/
 
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