Solaris 10 / Solaris Express x86 / Sun Studio 11 DVD media - FREE, no s/h

[Otaking]

Nice, thanks!

 

[Fin]

I received mine the other day. So they do deliver.
-Fin

 

[dafoomie]

Got mine today, thanks Sun. Too bad this'll never run on my SPARCstation 4.

Take it from me, I was a Solaris admin in a previous life. Solaris is rock solid, and now the x86 version is finally on par with SPARC.

No Linux distro can touch Solaris in terms of reliability, this is an enterprise grade operating system that you'd use when it absolutely, positively, can not crash. Thats not so important on the desktop, but that was never where Solaris's strengths were.

Just don't use CDE, JDS is pretty good but it might not be the default desktop.

 

[AStar617]

Originally posted by: dafoomie
Got mine today, thanks Sun. Too bad this'll never run on my SPARCstation 4.

I see you're in Boston too... PM me if you're interested in upgrading to a box that will run Solaris 10...

Take it from me, I was a Solaris admin in a previous life. Solaris is rock solid, and now the x86 version is finally on par with SPARC.

No Linux distro can touch Solaris in terms of reliability, this is an enterprise grade operating system that you'd use when it absolutely, positively, can not crash. Thats not so important on the desktop, but that was never where Solaris's strengths were.

Just don't use CDE, JDS is pretty good but it might not be the default desktop.

Well put.

And in the latest releases of Solaris 10, GNOME/JDS is now the default, IIRC.

 

[ReDhAt]

Thanks for the thread, hopefully mines comes in soon.