Useful Links
Given the vast amount of information available on the internet, we thought it would be helpful to gather these links into a useful springboard. We hope this will help the Sun user community to get to most of this valuable, but some times elusive, information.
Hopefully, with your help, this page will evolve over time. To this end, we welcome your input and comments so that we can improve on the quality of information that we can provide.
Links:
Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
pioneered wide scale use of the UNIX operating system. The robust features
and excellent networking capabilities of UNIX allow easy integration of
additional systems into existing environments. Today, Sun is the leading
UNIX workstation/server vendor with more than 5,000 third-party solutions
for SPARC systems, more than any other RISC architecture.
The Solaris distributed computing solution makes truly distributed
computing a reality by a providing multitasking system software
environment. Solaris is based on the SunOS operating system, the
leading 32-bit implementation of UNIX.
SunSolve ONLINE is provided by Sun as a service to
SunSpectrum Contract customers. Some information is available to the public; publicly
accessible patches. Use contrary to any license agreement is prohibited.
SunSolve ONLINE provides in-depth customer-accessible resources for Sun customers; collections of
informational documents, patch descriptions, symptom-and-resolution databases, and download-access to
latest system patches.
FlashBack,
Inc. is a publisher of full-text-on-demand electronic journals that
provide useful, timely, high-quality information to the Sun user community.
SunWorld. IDG's Magazine for the Sun community.
Sun Microsystems Sponsor Page for SunSite. Great links to useful places.
SunSite's home page Links to several SunSites around the world.
HotJava Sun's HotJava home page.
Solaris 2.X FAQS
is a good reference document that can help any user to better understand
Solaris and the migration to latest version of Solaris.
Free or Public Domain Software for Solaris 2.x
For detailed hardware information, you migh want to look through the many Sun hardware FAQ's found on the net.
Here is one that we found: faqs/part1 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
CDROM FAQ Good info on compatibility issues on SCSII CDROM's for the Sun's.
Here is some info on setting up PPP that we have collected. Part 1, Part 2
Info on using fixed frequency monitors on pc's
Another good point of reference information is the
Sun WorkStation
Information Gopher Server. This Gopher Server contains various papers,
ftp sites, FAQs, news groups and other great resources.
NVRAM/hostid FAQ.
the UNIX Reference Desk.
UNIX Resouces. Good info from U of Texas.
We're featured in the Buyer's Index
Nerd World Media. The Nerd World Media Subject Index was created as a public service to provide a source of reference to the many resources on the World Wide Web and Usenet.
Starting Point. A great place to start web hopping from .
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