I’ve been working with Unix for a fairly long time now- about 13 years. I’ll admit that I started with Linux and thought it was light years ahead of SunOS 4.x running on those old SPARC machines- I mean who had heard of SPARC processors? I remember my boss trying to explain to me…

I recently installed Solaris 08/07 on a T2000 with a Sun Quad GbE x8 PCIe Low Profile Adapter (X4447A-z) inside. The machine gave lots of problems. One of the issues was the following message which the machine logged hundreds if not thousands of times: Oct 23 22:18:27 hostname fmd: SUNW-MSG-ID: SUNOS-8000-1L,…