There are a few errors in the R manual about Solaris. 1) Firstly you may know that Sun is now owned by Oracle. 2) "(Recent Sun machines are Opterons (?amd64?) rather than ?x86?, but 32-bit ?x86? executables are the default.) " It's not true to say that recent machines are Opterons rather than x86. Many new Sun machines are based on 64-bit Intel CPUs (often called x64). The machine I'm using, a Sun Ultra 27 http://www.sun.com/desktop/workstation/ultra27/index.xml is less than 6 months old and has a quad core 3.33 GHz Intel Xeon in it. It is certainly true that some recent machine are Opterons. Note, 64-bit libraries for 64-bit systems, even those based on Intel CPUs, go in /usr/lib/amd64. Likewise many open-source software will install the 64-bit libraries in /usr/local/lib/amd64. There's no "intel64" or anything like that. 3) "Modern Solaris systems allow a large selection of Open Source software to be installed from http://www.opencsw.org (formerly http://www.blastwave.org) via pkg-get, " It should be noted that OpenCSW and Blastwave are both still in existence. There's a lot of animosity between the two camps, but both do exist. So one is not formally the other. Unfortunately, they both install software in /opt/csw, so I would be very weary of using both sites, as there is no coordination between them. Dave
Corrections for the R manual on Solaris
2 messages · Dr. David Kirkby
4 days later
On 06/17/10 12:53 PM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
There are a few errors in the R manual about Solaris. 1) Firstly you may know that Sun is now owned by Oracle. 2) "(Recent Sun machines are Opterons (?amd64?) rather than ?x86?, but 32-bit ?x86? executables are the default.) " It's not true to say that recent machines are Opterons rather than x86. Many new Sun machines are based on 64-bit Intel CPUs (often called x64). The machine I'm using, a Sun Ultra 27 http://www.sun.com/desktop/workstation/ultra27/index.xml is less than 6 months old and has a quad core 3.33 GHz Intel Xeon in it. It is certainly true that some recent machine are Opterons. Note, 64-bit libraries for 64-bit systems, even those based on Intel CPUs, go in /usr/lib/amd64. Likewise many open-source software will install the 64-bit libraries in /usr/local/lib/amd64. There's no "intel64" or anything like that. 3) "Modern Solaris systems allow a large selection of Open Source software to be installed from http://www.opencsw.org (formerly http://www.blastwave.org) via pkg-get, " It should be noted that OpenCSW and Blastwave are both still in existence. There's a lot of animosity between the two camps, but both do exist. So one is not formally the other. Unfortunately, they both install software in /opt/csw, so I would be very weary of using both sites, as there is no coordination between them. Dave
Did nobody have any comments on this? Should I report this as a bug? I first posted this on r-help, where I was told r-devel would be more appropriate. But I've yet to get any response. Dave