Simon Phipps writes on his weblog: "I'm in Berlin today opening the very first OpenSolaris Developer Conference. I'll be announcing that the new Get.OpenSolaris.org site that allows anyone in the world to order a kit containing DVDs of OpenSolaris distributions, documentation and source. With a nod towards the good folks at Ubuntu, Sun is sponsoring the kits so that they are completely free of charge, including global delivery. Hopefully this will mean even folks without the bandwidth to download DVD ISOs will be able to join the OpenSolaris community."
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Member since:2005-07-06
I say go for it. Both cd's are free for downloading and shipping so it won't cost you a dime if you don't like one or the other. You will be at more of an advantage if you dual boot so you can test both with your newly acquired hardware then choose the one which works best for you. You have nothing to lose here and everything to gain.
Member since:2007-02-27
I tough about buying a SUN Opteron Desktop (Ultra 20 M2 Workstation) for my next
Desktop -- comes with Solaris 10 pre-installed -- to run Ubuntu on the Opteron
processor (it's a little on the expensive side).
My doubt is should one consider a dual boot (linux + Solaris) on such a worksta-
tion ?
I managed to get triple boot working with the Ultra 20 M2: XP 64-bit, Ubuntu 7.04, and Solaris Express build 57. It wasn't hard.
Member since:2005-11-05
Member since:
2005-08-14
Being an heavy Linux and BSD user I never felt tempted to drive test OpenSolaris.
I guess many others didn't care much about OpenSolaris and it moved on to OS
oblivion.
I tough about buying a SUN Opteron Desktop (Ultra 20 M2 Workstation) for my next
Desktop -- comes with Solaris 10 pre-installed -- to run Ubuntu on the Opteron
processor (it's a little on the expensive side).
My doubt is should one consider a dual boot (linux + Solaris) on such a worksta-
tion ?