Re: [Sheflug] Solaris 10

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 11:10 +0000, Steve Fisher wrote:
> I notice Sun have made Solaris 10 available for download on their site.  
> Its quite a big download 3 or 4 cds worth.  Just wondering if anybody 
> has ever used it and if it is worth downloading.

I would check your hardware before bothering; Solaris hardware support
isn't quite as good as Linux's if you're using x86 hardware. Plus, it
has (IIRC) some crazy memory requirements.

Personally, I have no reason why I might want to even look at Solaris.
They are moving to XOrg and GNOME (which I already run), install lots of
GNU tools and have "Linux emulation" for binaries (although - like their
other interesting technologies - this is just vapourware at the moment,
you can't get it right now as far as I know). 

Their new filesystem looks interesting. If the licence for Solaris 10 is
truly OSI-compliant (as they rumour it will be), this will make it's way
into Linux before too long. DTrace I couldn't really give a stuff about.
Ditto Solaris containers; it looks nice but is irrelevant for me.

So, I won't be downloading :o)

Cheers,

Alex.

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