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Old 12-24-2005, 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Static Electrician
Porting between Solaris x86 and Solaris Sparc should be fairly trivial as the OS isn't really that different -- some kernel processor calls are different and x86 doesn't have the OpenBoot firmware -- but structurally, they're pretty close to identical from a sysadmin POV. As long as your install doesn't do weird "check if uname returns x86 || fail" checks for no reason, there really shouldn't be a big difference that I know of.
They're not binary compatible tho, are they? So the packages would have to be different in that they included specific binaries for mysql, postfix, java, etc, etc...
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