ideas for an old BSD laptop?

[Jason M. Leonard]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, parv wrote:

> in message <20040122193832.GB55754 at dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>,
> wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly...
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:06:17PM -0500, parv wrote:
> > : in message <20040120223640.GB39542 at dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>,
> > : wrote Jonathon McKitrick thusly...
> > : >
> > : > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very
> > : > much since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen.  I'm trying
> > : > to think of something interesting to do with it now.
> > : >
> > : > Any ideas on something interesting to use it for?  Maybe some kind
> > : > of learning experience?
> > :
> > : Try to run (Free|Net)BSD-current?  Or even, Sun Solaris 2.9?
> >
> > Solaris?  That might be interesting.  You can order Solaris for x86 on CD
> > free from Sun, correct?
>
> I know one could order Solaris CD but do not know if it the CD would
> be sent (almost) free of cost.
>
> Does Sun not provide a free downloadable OS image/binary?

It appears so.

http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html

Although the last time I ran Solaris on x86 software the performance was
reminiscent of running Xenix on my TRS-80 Model III.


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