Linked by Will Senn on Tue 26th Apr 2005 20:14 UTC
Wow! With Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems has done a marvelous job of bringing Solaris fully into the x86 world. Gone are the days when Solaris only runs on Sun hardware or when it only runs well on Sun hardware. Solaris 10 comes with greatly expanded off-the-shelf x86 hardware compatibility and a license that is hard to beat. It's a binary right to use and Open Solaris, the open source version is soon to come. IT Managers that have been wanting to bring a stable, scalable Operating Environment into their network infrastructures, but who have been unwilling to commit to the Sun hardware platform, for various reasons, are now free, pun intended, to bring Solaris on board and to run it on the hardware of their choice. 
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The review was pretty accurate in that Solaris 10 has a ****-load of new features. So far I've used JDS, SMF, and DTrace and am quite happy that Sun is still on the bleeding edge of operating systems. Microsoft is nowhere close, Linux is closer but lacks integration.
As far as JDS goes, I actually liked its relative simplicity. There are still a few points that need polishing, like multimedia. But it generally works well, and I use it as my primary desktop. The only things I added were the latest release of Firefox and several goodies from Blastwave.
For so many new features, I've also had good luck with stability. The only times I reboot the kernel is when I go out of town or there is an extended power outage.