Linked by Robert Escue on Wed 20th Sep 2006 17:45 UTC
Sun Microsystems makes new releases of Solaris about every four to six months, in many cases all the new release contains is bug fixes and some changes in functionality. More often than not most releases go by without a great deal of fanfare. Just as Solaris 10 3/05 broke new ground with Zones, Dtrace and the Service Management Facility. Solaris 10 6/06 introduces ZFS or Zettabyte File System and the SATA framework and Xorg 6.9, which will be the primary focus of this review.
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2005-10-09
Not a bad review. You did hit on some of the nice selling points of Solaris. It seems you are targetting the developer-type audience, and if that was your intent, you hit on the big issue - X/video card support. It's something Sun does need to work on tremendously.
The other biggie you touched on lightly, but needs a good beating - is the installer. It really is terrible. Now, that being said, most everybody who uses Solaris for any length of time, sets up a jumpstart server and installs that way. It's fine for server admins, but it really shouldn't be necessary for devs to have to jump through some hoops to get Solaris installed in a reasonable fashion.
Both of these are known and acknowledged issues, I just don't know at what priority they have been placed.
Thanks for the summary review.