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 wouldn't go that far. He isn't saying that Solaris 10 is a bad OS. He is just saying it is not as advertised, and not for the people. It is not an OS that you can show to a Windows System Administrator and Really Wow with. Sure Solaris has a lot of cool stuff that will take Windows, MacOS and Linux years to catch up to. But unfortunatly in usability Windows, MacOS, and even Linux is ahead of Solaris.
It seems the people at Sun are the tradional Unix people and they shrug off advancements espectially made in Windows and MacOS, as just toy features not worthy for Sun. At Sun they dont really comprehend how many people really use .DOC format they figure people are still porting to PostScript.
Sun has a large Blind Eye for their technical problems. And dont seem to do enough to make themselfs uptosnuff. I use to be a big Solaris Fan. But Sience Solaris 9. It just seems to get more and more behind the times for Small to Mid size buisness use. And all the functionality is being put towards the Large over 1k systems.