I’m often asked by end-users, developers, and fellow system administrators, how to determine if the installed OS is 32bit or 64bit. I’m also asked if the hardware is capable of 64 bit, 32 bit, or both. Here is how to tel by OS:
HPUX
# getconf KERNEL_BITS
64
This will tell you if your currently running kernel is 64 [...]
Tag Archives: Solaris
Determining if your kernel and hardware is 32bit or 64bit
June 13, 2009 – 11:07 am
Firefox 3.0.7 Available
March 5, 2009 – 5:35 pm
Firefox 3.0.7 is available for Solaris according to BlogFinger.
Does anyone remember Internet Explorer and Outlook Express on Solaris Sparc around 1998 or so? It was neat running IE on a Sparc workstation and OE was great for reading USENET. It’s too bad Microsoft discontinued support for it. Fortunately, we now have a great browser called [...]