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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ipf (aka IP Filter) is a network packet filter. It is available under FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, and HP-UX, and inspired OpenBSD's PF, which sports very similiar syntax. It is a very, very good packet filter (firewall if you must) with a lot of features, some that are unavailable elsewhere. NetBSD ships with ipf by default, as does FreeBSD. You can try it out there, and find documentation here ( http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html ).
That said, I'm installing FreeBSD 5.4 on my workstation since wi(4) supports my wireless card properly, and Linux crashes repeatedly. Solaris isn't an option yet.