[SunHELP] Fwd: Solaris 2.6 vs 7

[Dave Lewis]

>Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 20:19:19 -0400
>To: ocuug at mail2.storm.ca
>From: Dave Lewis <dlewis at ottawa.com>
>Subject: Solaris 2.6 vs 7
>
>Hi, I'm sorta new into this Unix enviroment. Mostly my background comes 
>from NT and linux.
>
>I recently purchased a Sparc 20 to work with and have Solaris 7 on it.  It 
>appears
>that alot of the video options were dropped in Solaris 7, like support for 
>off sun video
>cards.  I'm looking for any information as to the differences between 2.6 
>and 7
>
>I have a 1meg video card now and it seems from what I've heard that the 
>onboard one
>doesn't support the VSIMM slots in the latest version.  So I'm thinking of 
>buying a secondary
>Fujitsu 24bit 28meg card, however it is not supported in 7 or 8 (basically 
>any 4m version)
>
>Am I going to fix one problem and create another one by going backwards to 
>2.6 ??
>is there any significant resason to stay with 7.. and if so how do I go 
>about fixing my video problems ?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help anyone can
>
>
>Dave Lewis