Hello all, My boss and I have come to the conclusion that Linux has greatly outpaced Solaris as an operating system and operating environment, especially in terms of usability. We're really interested in getting Linux going on our UltraSparc systems. This isn't a huge installation, just four systems (though one of those is an Oracle server and will probably stay Solaris). Still, I've sent out some queries to our software vendors, requesting Linux/Sparc versions. All of them now have at least Linux/Intel software, and some have versions for Linux/PPC and Linux/Alpha. Hopefully, it'll be something easy for them to do, though I'd like to make a request... These are the products we use, and the companies I've contacted.. Product Company ------- ------- Gauss Aptech Mathematica Wolfram Matlab MathWorks SAS SAS Institute Stata Stata Corp. If any of you folks use those apps, and have been considering migrating to Linux/Sparc, please let me know (probably off-list, unless you also have something interesting to say to the group) or let the company know, or both. Basically, I don't want to be just the one guy that's asking for it ;-) Also, does anyone know of software for Linux for administrating Sun A1000 arrays? At minimum, I'd like to know of some decent logging software, so if a drive failed or was failing, we could reboot to Solaris to run their software.. <sidenote> I'm at a really weird crossroads at the moment. I've worked at the Carlson School of Management at the U for about a year, administrating Solaris and Linux systems. I finally got a WinNT 4 machine yesterday (up til then, I'd been using a P166 Linux box for my workstation), and I just went to my first (and quite possibly last) Solaris users meeting on campus today where I discovered Solaris 8 had amazing new features such as DHCP support and the ability to install via HTTP... </sidenote> -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ The bigger the theory the / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ better. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010621/b635d091/attachment.pgp