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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Let's be honest.
The reviewer clearly has no idea what he's doing with Solaris. Solaris is meant for SERIOUS servers, not the 64MB RAM Pentium Pro 133 tripe in your basement. SPARC boxes last seemingly forever and run core systems for places like, oh, the US FRICKIN' NAVY! The very idea that Solaris should be run via a Gnome GUI is kinda funny to me. It's hard core UNIX and arguably the best in its field, along with AIX and HP UX.
However, Sun does get a little blame too. See, they are kind of marketing Solaris and Java Desktop like it's a viable desktop, and it's really not. It's ugly as piss, for one, but also, it's not easy to learn. There's no clear reason to choose it when the standard user isn't going to realize the benefits and is going to have to fight to find binaries. Futhermore, it comes ready to be a server, whereas Fedora, Ubuntu, and Mandrake are much better suited out of the box for a desktop replacement. If Sun were targetting the right audience, they wouldn't be the subject of a massacre like this.
My two cents, natch.