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 reviewer may not have known what to do with Solaris but then who else does?
I ran Solaris9 for a while back when the free download cost £20 - it was a great retro-computing experience. Almost the only useful software was badly ported from Linux. (And I mean significant things like X windows for my graphics card.)
I was hoping to step back in time again with version 10 which actually didnt cost money to download this time.
But my hardware had moved on and Solaris installer has not.
So I found I could type nothing at the installer prompt as Solaris couldnt even see my USB keyboard.
So I have four new shiny coasters with a famous billion dollar os on them.
I dont doubt it might be worth the effort and is probably the most secure OS etc, but Linux is just too simple to install and Linux just works.
So who can justify the pain these days of using the real thing.