Linked by Robert Escue on Wed 2nd Mar 2005 22:28 UTC
The vast majority of operating system reviews are the result of a user spending a few days or weeks using a particular operating system and writing about their observations. This review is the result of my continued use of Solaris 10 (previously Solaris Express) from August 2003 to February 2005.
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I've been playing with Solaris 10/SPARC for a few days, now. One thing is the movie player doesn't have codecs installed? In the meantime, I installed a Totem/Xine replacement from blastwave that works just fine. Otherwise, everything else seems to work pretty good.
Overall, JDS is a big improvement over CDE, although I have to admit that GNOME is much more resource-intensive than CDE. I can tolerate CDE on older SPARCstations, but GNOME is hard even on my Sun Ultra workstation.
I think Sun does deserve a lot of credit with Solaris 10. They took their kernel, integrated GNOME, StarOffice, a recent Mozilla, etc. and made a really nice setup out of it. It's actually laid out well, which the Sun bashers at Slashdot always gloss over in their flamewars.