Solaris is a whore
Yeah, you heard me right!
Solaris is a whore. It needs at least 720 MB of ram to even begin contemplating installing it on the VMWare IDE drive. That is horrible! I may have 2 GB's of ram in my MacBook Pro, but giving 1 GB of that to VMWare is kind of a pain, considering I don't just run Mac OS X and VMWare Fusion, I also run many other applications, sometimes even other virtual machines.
Why am I playing with Solaris? That is an excellent question. At school we have a SunBlade 150 workstation sitting around doing nothing. I am getting credit for setting it up in my NTW235 (Introduction to Mac OS X). Especially since the Mac OS X class is easy for me, I would rather do something that is going to challenge me. So I jumped on the chance to play with some ancient Sun hardware (Sparc system, 64 bit, 650 Mhz, 512 MB of ram, Rage XL graphics card, 40 GB HD), especially since I have always really wanted a Sun machine, just well, because it is Sun hardware. I really think that with those specs Solaris 10, or OpenSolaris will not install on it, so I will need to find some other way to get it installed.
I do need some tips and tricks from your guys, any comments what so ever. Hit me up at xistence [at] gmail [dot] com. How would I for instance install OpenSolaris, with just a terminal, and SSH access? Where can I get the compiler suite from? How can I install it to machines with low ram? These are all questions I have not yet found answers too. The last time I installed Solaris without the graphical environment, it would not let me do anything (even set up an outgoing Internet connection).
SunBlade 150 is another project to add to my list of projects I am working on. Next semester is going to be busy as well. I am taking two project based classes (more on that later), and one class I am particularly looking forward to is LostboY's near-space balloon which is going to count as science credits which is awesome!