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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Yes I read it and it is similar to a review of Solaris 10 written by a Linux user who obviously did not know how to use Solaris. This is more of the same.
The complaint about CDE is nonsense, AIX has CDE, so does HP-UX. It has to do with the Department of Defense demanding it for the applications that use Common Operating Environment (COE). Even RedHat had to "cave in" and support COE with OpenMotif before DoD would "bless it". And if you are smart, you support what your customers want.
Mattias talks about the lack of applications, obviously he couldn't figure out how to put /usr/sfw/bin in his PATH statement, where he would have found GCC, gmake, and a host of other applications. He also failed to mention that you could mount Windows shares with no configuration changes, and that the Evolution e-mail client with Exchange support ships. At least in the review I wrote for this site I could!
Instead we hear the bitching about Solaris "retro" interfaces not being as good as Linux. I wonder how much time he actually had Solaris installed. "A good thing I have to report is that I experienced no errors or crashes during the hours I've tested the system."
The article is one step above a troll, if the guy was truly serious he would have actually tried to use it instead of his mindless bitching!