
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.
Thanks for describing those interesting capabilities of Solaris, in reply to my question! O reviewer, does it perform as advertised? Can you set up two "zones" on your new Solaris box, log in as two different root users, see two different filesystems, run two disjoint sets of processes?