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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@Trey
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.
I installed from DVD, and enabled DMA before installing, took less than an hour.
DMA is disabled by default because there used to be a lot of flaky hardware out there. I believe the next Solaris release will have DMA enabled by default though as it seems that the majority of hardware doesn't have problems anymore.
Today, that is unacceptable, I almost gave up, but for my interest in seeing what it was all about.
It's perfectly acceptable if it does what you want it to do. Besides "acceptable" is relative, what one person considers acceptable another does not.