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Here a few tips to GNU/Linux users who find themselves with accounts
on a [SunOS][]/[Solaris][] machine.  The following are true of my
university's SunOS 5.10 machine, your mileage may vary.

List system information
=======================

`uname` hasn't changed:

    $ uname -srv
    SunOS 5.10 Generic_144489-11

List processor information
==========================

What?  No `/proc/cpuinfo`?  Use `psrinfo`:

    $ psrinfo
    0       on-line   since 01/07/2012 02:38:26
    1       on-line   since 01/07/2012 02:38:35
    …
    $ psrinfo -v
    Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 02/13/2012 12:57:27
      on-line since 01/07/2012 02:38:26.
      The i386 processor operates at 3333 MHz,
            and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
    …

X windows
=========

Sun's X window server is `openwin`.  I couldn't get a remote X server
running over SSH, but the usual X tunneling to my local server worked
fine.

Other interesting commands
==========================

* `prtdiag`: print disagnostic information (vaguely similar to `lshw`)
* `prstat`: display process information (similar to `top`)
* `vmstat`: print virtual memory statistics (similar to `free`)
* `mpstat`: a per-processor version of `vmstat`
* `pgrep`: print process IDs by process name or other attributes
* `pfiles`: print files opened by a process

Further reading
===============

Ben Rockwood has [a much more involved version][BR] of this post.

[SunOS]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS
[Solaris]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29
[BR]: http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=562

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