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Years of experience with IBM operating systems, I've decided to see how far ... how fast ... I can go by using Solaris 10 x86 exclusively.

The first challenge was to find Solaris supported hardware and install the software. It wasn't easy, but that part is behind me.

Next step is to organize the wealth of information available on the Sun website for my own puposes, and make it relevant to Solaris 10 ... not the 15-20 years of collected information (correct, incorrect, misinformed, obsolete).

This week I was concentrating on installing Twiki to my solaris box. blogger.com is a know-brainer, so I'll knock this one off my to-do list temporarily.

I may love "save as draft" a bit too much ... the bulk of my posts until I feel comfortable.

Seeding the tool shed:

• email
  This is the first challenge. With a new website, I need to be able to handle email smoothly, and from any location. An exchange server is needed ... but not Microsoft's. I've always been a fan of Mitch Kapor's work, so I'm looking at porting Chandler to Solaris 10.
• Apache2
  Solaris ships with 1.3 and 2.0; Apache2 is my preferred server.
• Wiki
  To keep material organized ... easily, from any location.
  I've chosen Twiki, and am installing it now.
• Forums
  I use and like phpBB ... migrating this from linux to Solaris.
• blogs
  WordPress once I get Solaris x86 up, stable and secure.

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