Re: [Sheflug] Solaris 10

[Jonathan <jonathan [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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've found some problems with it. Normally that's just that it seems to 
loop on the installation and I can't seem to run anything.

The hardware support is good for machines that's aren't cutting edge, 
not quite linux maybe, certainly on a par for FreeBSD, great for older 
machines.

I found it quite clunky, memory can be an issue sometimes and last time 
I used it, there wasn't a compiler in there by default, so you have to 
piddle around finding gcc binaries before you can do much good with it.

I think my last working install lasted about 20 minutes before I got 
bored and trashed it :/

- J

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