From david.kirkby at onetel.net  Tue Jun 22 12:09:31 2010
From: david.kirkby at onetel.net (Dr. David Kirkby)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:09:31 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Corrections for the R manual on Solaris
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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



[Rd] Corrections for the R manual on Solaris
Dr. David Kirkby