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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For me, the only downside of Solaris was the install process... I was required to have 4 discs, and the process took about 2.5 hours.
Today, that is unacceptable, I almost gave up, but for my interest in seeing what it was all about.
Other than that, the only other issue I had was with my NIC, it wasn't supported, although the drivers are around. However, it is kinda hard to download NIC drivers when the only box currently at your disposal is unable to get online.
Other than that, Slowaris is certainly a thing of the past. It is rather a nice OS, so long as you avoid CDE like the plague.
I didn't have it installed long enough however to really say whether I like it, I didn't get a good enough feel for it. I certainly had few complaints from what I saw though.