Linked by Matthias Breiter on Wed 25th May 2005 17:39 UTC
With a (relatively) big advertising campaign SUN promoted Solaris 10 (also known as SunOS 5.10). Referring to SUN, with the "revolutionary" JAVADesktop 2 and a lot of new features and improvements, Solaris 10 should be the best OS today. Solaris is free for SPARC owners and for private use or evaluation purpose it's also freely available on the x86. While Solaris actually is kind of a legend, I thought "Hu, this could be an interesting alternative on my PC". Thought, went on and downloaded the ISOs. Read on to see how an average user (me) have experienced Solaris.
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While I would also recommend Linux/Freebsd for a desktop,
your terribly lacks accuracy. Please don't post reviews, until you verify facts. You're confusing the readers and damaging repuation of a good product.
Also, don't confuse "cutting edge" Gnome 2.10 distros, which end up using experimental libraries and switch compilers twice a month with rock solid systems, that are designed for long life cycles, not every 6 month releases. Look for patches for Ubuntu Hoary (my favorite Linux ) in 3 years
and you'll know what I mean. There probably won't even be a Ubuntu by then.
Sol 10 makes a very powerful workstation/server. This is the first commerical Unix to officiall support ipf.
The storage management utilities rock. Ever tried mirroring a set of exisiting partitions in Linux / BSD ? Without enough experience, you'll end up without date.
Try in in Solaris. It's as good as Veritas, but free !
gcc ships with Solaris 10 ( along with hundreds of other gnu apps), look under /usr/sfw/
Please be more careful about what you write.