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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"In the end, Solaris is an oldschool UNIX for UNIX Geeks like scientists and students."
I'm a scientist who has used SunOS and Solaris for over 15 years. It's great for scientists who want to spend half their time being sysadmins too.
I develop my own computational models. Solaris doesn't come with any scientific packages, unlike Linux or freeBSD. Solaris doesn't even come with a compiler.
gcc is OK if you code in C/C++. But most scientific packages are still in Fortran, and g77 and g95 just don't cut it. So you have to pay for a Solaris Fortran compiler. This is big bucks compared to what's available for Linux and Windows.
All in all, lack of software is a killer for Solaris. That's why I moved my development work to Linux and Windows.