
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.
I started to read Sun's PDF (where's the HTML, guys), but the first sentence is "Today, businesses often design their systems with extra capacity to handle occasional peak loads to maximize revenue during periods of high demand." Blah blah blah. Revenue blah. I skimmed it and saw a lot about multiple processors though. Does this "zones" feature work even if I only have the one processor that I bought at CompUSA?