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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There seem to be various claims that Solaris possesses "under the hood" qualities that will take years for other OSes to catch up to. Can you provide a little more detail please? Why should I choose Solaris over Linux or BSD for my server? The only pro-Solaris comment that even hinted at any substance said this:
"Sol 10 makes a very powerful workstation/server. This is the first commerical Unix to officiall support ipf. The storage management utilities rock. Ever tried mirroring a set of exisiting partitions in Linux / BSD ? Without enough experience, you'll end up without date. Try in in Solaris. It's as good as Veritas, but free!"
What is ipf? And can you explain the problem that arose when you tried to "mirror partitions" in Linux (including what program you used?) and how things worked differently in Solaris?
Even if Solaris isn't for everyone, someone should provide *one* example of a project for which Solaris is clearly the right choice, and explain why.