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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Torvalds nailed it when he said that opening up Solaris didn't mean THAT much
Of course, if you're taking about the interview he had with CNET, he then went on to say that he lets other people tell him what technologies he should think are important:
"But more importantly, if I'm wrong, that's OK. People who know Solaris better than I do will tell me and other people about the great things they offer. To try to figure it out on my own would be a waste of time."
http://news.com.com/Torvalds+A+Solaris+skeptic/2008-1082_3-5498799....
It's just that Torvalds isn't actually listening.
IMHO, it's better to try it yourself and make up your own mind.
[Y]ou're either stuck with a shortlist of x86 components or Sun HW
This isn't the end of the world, really. If you harken back to Linux's early days, they didn't have much hardware or driver support either. The HCL for the Linux 1.1 kernel was much shorter than that for 2.6, and as more people at Sun and elsewhere work on Solaris driver support, the list will grow.
FYI, I was able to install Solaris on my laptop and it worked out of the box. It's an unsupported configuration, but everything just worked for me.