What OS does the SparcBook 3 run and do I need to purchase from Tadpole?
The SparcBook 3 will run Sunos 4.1.3-u1 and any Solaris version up to Solaris 2.6! The Tadpole version does have some add-on’s to pause and resume the SparcBook, the Fax program and the PCMCIA drivers but rumour has it that legal owners of Solaris 2.6 can get a copy per FTP. One can download the additional packages required to let Solaris 2.6 run on your sparc book from: ftp://ftp.tadpole.com/pub/sbu/S3-patches/Solaris_2.6/ The file that contains all of them is: ftp://ftp.tadpole.com/pub/sbu/S3-patches/Solaris_2.6/TTI_Solaris_2.6_packages.tar.Z How ever this does not include the NCE graphical utilities. These are not around at present times but may be available in the future.