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Re: [Sheflug] Solaris 10
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From: "Steve Fisher" <steve.fisher [at] fernite.co.uk>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Solaris 10
Not worth bothering with then.
I have a friend giving away a PIII 600 (IIRC) to a good cause, but they
would need to collect it - is it James Wallbank that collects old PC's and
does interesting things with them? (If it is James, then I also have a
sneaking suspicion that he used to be called Jim and used to go to
Rebels) if it is email me off list and I will put you in contact with him.
Cheers
Steve
Guys,
I wouldn't write off Solaris 10 as useless.
I am a member of the Solaris (for Intel) mailing list.
It is very active and has been for some time. There are Sun employee's who
take an active role in that list.
The development of Solaris 10 has been going on for some time, and people
who have reported bugs through the mailing list, have seen them resolved in
newer builds.
The first non-beta is due in January.
I actually setup build 69 of Solaris Express (which is the beta name for
Solaris 10) in VMware under Linux just the other day.
It was very very smooth running indeed and worked absolutely brilliantly.
Much newer hardware support is coming along quite nicely too.
Also, the new Java Desktop System is shaping up nicely, which will run on
Solaris x86 and provide a very robust desktop environment.
The peeps on the mailing list are also extremely helpful if you run into a
problem with it. Being that some are Sun employees, you get an answer from
the horses mouth and if not, there are people there who will actually go and
find the people at Sun who can answer your problem ie. the people who wrote
that portion of the software.
All I would say is dont write if off on the basis of having played around
with it for 10 minutes and then got bored. There is a lot more to Solaris 10
than meets the eye!
Steve.
(And no, I have no connection with Sun whatsoever).
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