Motif W/XRT Vs QT Or GTK+ On SPARC Solaris

I'm trying to configure (install and run) a program on Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 7). The last section in my failing configure log file is:

checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib64, headers /usr/X11R6/include
checking whether -R must be followed by a space... neither works
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes
checking for remove... yes
checking for shmat... yes
checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes
checking X11/Intrinsic.h usability... yes
checking X11/Intrinsic.h presence... yes
checking for X11/Intrinsic.h... yes
checking for X11/Intrinsic.h... (cached) yes
checking Xm/Xm.h usability... yes
checking Xm/Xm.h presence... yes
checking for Xm/Xm.h... yes
checking for Xm/Xm.h... (cached) yes
checking if Xm.h defines XmSCROLL_HOR... yes
checking if GL/GLwDrawA.h can be found... yes
checking if GLw/GLwDrawA.h can be found... no
checking if X11/GLw/GLwDrawA.h can be found... no
checking for main in -lX11... yes
checking for main in -lXt... yes
checking for main in -lXmu... yes
checking for library containing _XmStrings... no
configu error: can't find Xm (motif) library

Any suggestions on how best to proceed would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi all,

I'm a new Redhat Linux administrator. Recently one of my colleague told me our company is joining hands with other company, so i better learn Solaris asap. I have no clue whats Solaris is like. A quick google search on Solaris returned results like DTrace, ZFS, Zones etc... which I have no clue about.

My job as linux admin is to install/manage services like dhcp/dns/vsftpd/ftp/samba/nfs/openldap etc and some form of user/backup/log/package management. What does solaris is used for? Is Solaris also used like dhcp/dns and other services? Because there are little or no tutorials on web on solaris's dhcp/dns service etc. All i see is dtrace, zfs, zones etc.

So pls help me understand:
Can i download solaris-11.2 live cd, install in VirtualBox and get free updates.. say for 6 months/student trial.
If i get updates, learning how to install and manage services like dhcp/dns/vsftp etc in solaris is good enough to start with?
If i dont get free updates, and if i install OpenIndiana and learn the same stuff in it...is it same as working in solaris?
Both Redhat and Solaris are used for same job in companies. Difference is just the choice between stability and technical support. Right?
Many Thanks

Looking for C/C++ SourceCode on Solaris platform. Any pointers ?

There are so many Linux distros, and they all look good, but which one is right for me?

That is a question that almost all new Linux users ask. Really, it just depends on you. What do you want to use it for? I’ll go through a brief rundown of some mainstream Linux distros, and maybe from there you can make up your mind. I’ll sort by the most popular ones.

Ubuntu
I don’t particularly care for Ubuntu for a few reasons: It is ad supported because they lack support from users, It comes with spyware pre-installed, and they try to act like they’re the best despite all that. A lot of people who have been using Ubuntu for a while don’t care for the new UI that they’ve installed, which is the defacto option for Ubuntu. Not only that, but they, unlike any other distro, have a very distinct security hole: a guest session that can be accessed without a password. NOT the best for use...in really any environment.
But, to their credit, they’ve got the largest software repository second only to Debian, even though there’s a lot of applications that do the same exact thing. Their UI is very polished considering that they released it just in 2011. And their forums have a ton of helpful Ubuntu users.

Linux Mint
LM is pretty much just like Ubuntu, only instead of everything being either purple or orange, it’s green or white. Much like Ubuntu, they have their own UI, and their own Software Center.. But, because they are rooted in Ubuntu (http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint) they may inherit some of Ubuntu’s problems. You guess which ones.

Fedora
Of them all, Fedora is probably the most user friendly, except for the fact that they use cutting edge packages that may/may not be 100% stable, and Fedora is making a change as of 21 to focus more on stability. (Personally, I’ve had very few issues with stability, and the issues I come accross seem to apply to most distors) Other than that, it’s a great distro, asthetically pleasing, Fedora comes standard with GNOME Boxes (lets you run another OS within Fedora, like Windows), an app store like thingy, and many nice GNOME applications.. Fedora is suitable for most any machine, including tablets and hybrids like the Lenovo Yoga, thanks to GNOME.

Debian
Debian is really in a world of their own. In an effort to focus on stability, they sacrifice reasonably up-to-date software. If you have old hardware that was supported, but is not now, Debian is for you.
Debian also has a lot of software, but I’ve had trouble with broken packages, dependencies completely missing, and whatnot.

openSUSE
Like Linux Mint, everything in openSUSE is green. Unlike Linux Mint, openSUSE is rock stable, mature, and has great avenues for customizing it to your specific needs, using the GUI. Most everything configurable is made much easier with YAST, rather than using the command line. openSUSE features something no other distro has: a one-click install for applications. Ubuntu is trying to copy it...good luck with that. And, like Debian, they've got most every package under the sun...which can be good and bad at the same time. The packages in openSUSE are complete, no missing dependencies from what I can see. The only problem I can see with it is that WiFi drivers and nonfree codecs can be a pain.

Now the reason you're reading this is to get an idea of what's out there as far as Linux goes. But maybe you haven't thought about Unix as a viable option.

Solaris
If you have an i386 arch processor, you can forget trying to boot up with Solaris 11. But once you get it running on an x86_64 machine, it's pretty decent, considering that it is an enterprise OS. It's stable. It's fast. And it has some proprietary Oracle tools to help administrate it, much like YAST on openSUSE. Solaris is targeted at being a workstation OS, so you won’t find things like games in abundance in it. Considering what it is, Solaris rocks.

hi,
I'm cross-compiling a linux kernel. And I want to use git to manage the project. When I first add the project to the git index and commit, then I clone it out, I failed to compile it with the file missing information printed. The file missing is like include/linux/autoconf.h amount many others.
PS:I have no gitignore in the current directory.
Please take a look and give some hints if anyone has some thoughts.
Thanks.

I am using scientific linux. In the directory user/project/Build, after I ran 'make' to compile and link all the cpp files,I had no problems. But then, when I went to directory user/run/run.sh, which runs the project binary in user/project/Build/bin/project, I get a segmentation fault error. In the directory user/run, I enter 'gdb' in the command prompt and get the message "*** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop."

What am I supposed to do to detect the segmentation fault?

Hi,

We have a sendmail gateway supported by Solaris 10 server. How to go about if we would like to migrate the sendmail gateway to another Solaris 10 server?

Thanks in advance.

HI, this is melvin, new in linux, and keep learning in here.

we just have a project need to disable the 5GHz channel in the AR9462 due to the Approval issue.
We use "iw" to do the checking and found out the current EEPROM setting is 0x6c which enabled the 5GHz channel in passive and beacon scanning mode and caused the problem in the test lab for project~.
By the way, Is there anyone could help to advise how we could disable the 5GHz channel in the ath9k? we only need 2.4GHz only but chosen this dual band card for the project, so can't be changing.
Please help.
Thanks
Melvin

Hi,

I have the following when I run gmake to build apache 2.2.29 in Solaris 10 in SPARC hardwa

:
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
BIO_set_callback ab.o
BIO_set_callback_arg ab.o
BIO_get_callback_arg ab.o
SSL_CTX_set_info_callback ab.o
ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to ab
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[2]: *** [ab] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/SSL/httpd-2.2.29/support'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/SSL/httpd-2.2.29/support'
gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
:

I tried the advised from the result of google around but to no avail.

Appreciate if anyone can gives a pointer. Thanks in advance.

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening

As my subject line states I am trying to upgrade the MOBO/CPU/RAM on a system that has Mandrake 9.2 as the OS. Everything is terribly outdated on it, but unfortunately the OS is running a custom program that I did not develop and talking to the developer seems to be an impossible task. I have no working knowledge of any Linux based OS, so I am trying to get pointed in the right direction on possible troubleshooting that may occur. The system is not connected to the internet so it wont be able to automatically update the necessary drivers that I already know. I haven't gone forward with the upgrades as of yet, one because I am waiting on the CPU to arrive and two because my lack of knowledge makes me hesitant. I know that someone is thinking why not just upgrade the OS, the reason behind that is because I am unsure on if the custom software will even run on it. Any help would be appreciated.

tl;dr
Will I be able to just plug and play the new hardware as long I have the correct drivers?