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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The author doesn't critize that Solaris is a powerful OS. He crities the Hype Sun hs been pushing out the door trying to make people believe that they can replace their Windows and OS X boxes with Solaris.
Let's look at the Features Sun is hyping up.
Dtrace?-- Great for programmers absolutely useless for anyone else. Linux people are working on projects just like it to help themselves develop code better. Good Idea not for most users.
ZFS -- When(?) it ships will be useful, if you have an x86 box with more than a terabyte of storage. A standard x86 box that linux gets installed on though would need a third IDE controller for a cd drive though. 4-250 mb disks aren't that common yet.
Fast ip stack -- Okay this might get tested out as a server big plus.
Java Desktop -- Gnome that's been renamed just to suit Sun's marketing dept.
As the Author said. Corporate workstation. Not General Desktop.