[Suns-at-Home] Solaris 10/JDS on U10/5

[Lewis, Benjamin (Ben)]

>I was wondering what experiences people have had with Solaris 10 and in
addition, Solaris 10 while running the Java Desktop System on the Ultra
10 (and Ultra 5 for that matter).

Hello Eric

I've been running Solaris 10 on an Ultra 5 for a while. I moved from 9
specifically for the Java Desktop but I found it to be barely useable
even with 1Gb of RAM. The graphics are great and you've got all the
widgets that should be in a modern GUI (easy desktop shortcuts etc) but
it's treacly slow on the Ultra 5.

I've gone back to CDE. That makes it a great little machine and chugs
away running all the stuff I use at work.

I did a search at the time hoping to find some insights and found this
comment on the Ultra 5 & 10 :-

"Hung like an IDE bus"=20

Best regards

Ben

PS Anyone know a good MUD sever for Solaris? I've been trying to compile
PennMUSH but am getting all kinds of Locale errors with gcc.