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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After you finally got Solaris 10 installed (we're talking ages here), try to configure IP/Gateway/DNS/Subnet-mask. You'll have to search the web endlessly until you find references to the correct configuration files and even then it will be a nightmare to get the right instructions. It took me hours, until I finally gave up and decided to spend my time on better things. Now, if I (an IT professional) can't figure out how to do it in reasonable time, will "the people" manage to?
I didn't have any such problems with Windows, OS X, Linux, BeOS, OS/2 and QNX. Setting the network connectivity in those OSes was a breeze. In Solaris it's a nightmare.
Solaris 10 sure is *not* "for the people". Just move on...