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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Excuse me but I'd like to go as far as saying solaris is anything but innovative at this stage of the game. How anyone but a sun employee can say it's more innovative than linux is beyong me. From someone who does kernel level work in linux in a market traditionally dominated by realtime systems as well as using solaris as a compile machine for some of our older "legacy" software, I can say this is anything but true. You should see all the academic projects floating around just related to lowering latencies in linux. It may not all be the most stable stuff but ideas are floating around. Hell we even have people using genetic algorithms to find the perfect tuning parameters for scheduling. You can't even look at the code for solaris right now and maybe Sun will file for bankrupcy before you ever can. Solaris is too little too late.