Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Apr 2007 14:08 UTC, submitted by flanque
"One reason that people might choose to miss out on OpenSolaris is because we're (in general) a conservative lot and a lot of people have had bad experiences with Solaris (and, dare we say it, also with Windows and Linux) in the past. No matter how much software and UI improves, it takes ages for the community to accept this. A reputation that took years to build can be lost with one bad release - but won't be quickly reinstated with one good one. So there will always be people who resist change - and why not, if what they have now works for them. However, various people pointed us at Ubuntu and 'an OpenSolaris-based distro focused specifically on developers'. So perhaps things have improved for Solaris lately and, as I said in the original article, it's now worth another look."
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It is somewhat stodgy and sluggish in its default form, but it's pretty easy to make it a comfortable environment.
I'm not savvy enough to tune Solaris to the degree of "snappiness" that you can get out of the chute with Debian or Fedora, but once you start piling on the "real" capabilities (scalability, virtualization, storage) to those OSs, the differences start to diminish.
Two to three days "getting" the Solaris-ness of it, the installation of 'pkg-get' (http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/pkg-get.html) a more useful shell, and optimized Xorg drivers (http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris_display_1.0-9755.html) ease the pain, IMO.
I've been flirting with Solaris since 8 on i386, and only recently on SPARC hardware (Ultra 10). Based on my experience, I can appreciate the utility of Solaris on Sun gear if your goal is a managable, solid platform with tight integration with storage products. However, if you want a development or workstation environment, there's room for Solaris to improve, and as a result, the need can be better served with something less "heavy" (Linux, MacOS)
Maybe Ian will bring some of Debian's flexibility and modularity to Solaris.