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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I, too, installed Solaris 10 a while back, about a month ago. To give you some background, at various points I have been a professional Unix system administrator for Linux, Solaris, Digital Unix, and Windows servers.
That said, I absolutely loathe *having* to use the command line to do things. If you are not familiar with a system, it's much easier to discover how to do things using a GUI. Then, sure, give me a command line to script or do very advanced things, but don't force me to do it!
Solaris 10 has absolutely no GUI integration whatsoever. It's a GUI shell with no functionality. It barely allows you to launch programs, of which there are hardly any.