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N1LAF
10-05-2010, 03:23 PM
Have another operating system up and running in VMware .. Open Solaris
Installed very cleanly, runs, Firefox pre-installed.

The ISO download is about 667MB (Live Version)

Ubuntu, PC-BSD, and Solaris has the type of interfaces I am looking for.

What OS should I install next? Seal?
KC2UGV
10-05-2010, 03:25 PM
Next OS: OS/2 or Minix :)
KJ3N
10-05-2010, 03:25 PM
What OS should I install next? Seal?

OS/2

:rofl: :rofl:
KJ3N
10-05-2010, 03:25 PM
Next OS: OS/2 or Minix :)

Beat me by mere seconds...
N1LAF
10-05-2010, 03:30 PM
I would need an OS/2 disk or ISO file, I'd give it a try.

Just installed VMware for Solaris, installer friendly and works great. I do find Solaris a little sluggish, but I wouldn't hesitate to make a partition dedicated for Solaris and multi boot it.
To do what I am doing, you need a USB hard drive to keep baseline libraries... better yet, External SATA....
KC2UGV
10-05-2010, 03:33 PM
I would need an OS/2 disk or ISO file, I'd give it a try.

Just installed VMware for Solaris, installer friendly and works great. I do find Solaris a little sluggish, but I wouldn't hesitate to make a partition dedicated for Solaris and multi boot it.
To do what I am doing, you need a USB hard drive to keep baseline libraries... better yet, External SATA....

Solaris would be a big sluggish on a VM, because it doesn't play nicely with non-Sun VM's (a la IBM's LPARs). If you really need performance from a virtualized instance of Solaris, it's better to be run it on Big Iron.

Also, for OpenSolaris, I think there is an alternative kernel for virtual instances...
N1LAF
10-05-2010, 03:36 PM
Downloaded Minix..
Downloaded BeOS...
N1LAF
10-05-2010, 09:16 PM
Minix3 hung on startup...
BeOS works fine
jnode - not to sure what to make of it
n6hcm
10-06-2010, 03:47 AM
Have another operating system up and running in VMware .. Open Solaris

the only people who care about Open Solaris are people who grew tired of paying premium prices for sun's intel-based hardware.

back in the day i usedta run solaris 2.4 x86. i was one of the *two* people in all of oracle who used it for anything. hopefully it's gotten much better by now.
N1LAF
10-06-2010, 04:10 PM
the only people who care about Open Solaris are people who grew tired of paying premium prices for sun's intel-based hardware.

back in the day i usedta run solaris 2.4 x86. i was one of the *two* people in all of oracle who used it for anything. hopefully it's gotten much better by now.

I actually like this Open Solaris.
Program download and setup was painless..
Compact and reconfigurable menu system..
Loading Open Office was a breeze. And no ribbons!
n2ize
10-06-2010, 06:07 PM
OpenVMS !!
N1LAF
10-06-2010, 07:38 PM
OpenVMS !!


OpenVMS is not available for x86 CPUs, so it cannot be installed in VMware VM
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/259688
KC2UGV
10-06-2010, 08:21 PM
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/259688

However, I think Qemu can run it :)