[ug-bosug] Solaris on most Dell hardware - works just fine

[Jayakara Kini]

I have a Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop.

Apparently, its not designed to support Solaris.
Two of the USB ports cannot be used while installing.
There are lots of booting and shutdown issues with Solaris.

Note that the issues are only while booting and shutting down.
Solaris runs fine on the box.

~Kini

On Nov 17, 2007 1:55 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks:
>
> (My apologies - I hit send by mistake instead of Save)
>
> I read with interest this news article :
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C2216876%2C00.asp
>
> I can myself confirm that Solaris 10 and SXCE/SXDE run just fine on
> almost all the Dell hardware that I've tested these on.
>
> The only exception has been a Dell Latitude D620 (with a 64 bit CPU -
> different from the earlier D620s that had a 32 bit CPU).
>
> For video, the NVDia drivers work just fine, and the server drivers
> section at the Broadcom site has Network drivers for Solaris 10.
>
> It's nice to hear of a formal support by Dell for Solaris 10 and for
> Opensolaris - this means that one can now download well tested drivers
> direct from the Dell website for Solaris-Ready hardware.
>
> With this move, quite a few organizations would be OK with testing the
> waters with Solaris/OpenSolaris. I've seen that open source is all
> fine, but that we corporates prefer having a vendor whom we can "hold
> responsible" when something goes wrong.
>
> At Thoughtworks, I've played with OpenSolaris on the variety of
> hardware that we have, and have even hosted a few Windows instances on
> Xen (as early as build 66). But acceptance at the corporate level has
> been cool simply because Solaris is not "Supported by Dell".
>
>
> -- Sriram
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