Linked by Will Senn on Tue 26th Apr 2005 20:14 UTC
Sun Solaris, OpenSolaris 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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Nor 9 nor 10 make it
by Juancho Carrancho on Fri 29th Apr 2005 11:08 UTC

Sorry to dissapoint but Solaris 10 just doesn't make it. Lack of support for hardware such as network cards make it plain terrible to set up. And once setup it is so barebone you could cry. It may have a lot of things under the hood but they are just not in plain sight and setting up is still terrible. Solaris 11 maybe?