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Take A Look At Solaris 10
SilentBob4 writes "There haven't been many reviews of the recent Solaris 10 release from Sun Microsytems, and even those which are available are thin at best... until now. Mad Penguin, normally a Linux-only site, has release the most comprehensive and well-written review of the OS to date."
It's people like these that make me wanna scream.
First I doubt there were zero security patches since 1999. Second, if you have to actually develop on boxes that old it's a pain in the arse [hello, libtool is not just a "random fancy idea"].
I suppose if all you do is serve static pages then yeah a box/install from 1999 is all you need. I'm sure you don't need the latest of Gentoo to run an echo server either...
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
No need to be a dick. He ran into reasonable problems with some of Solaris' rough edges.
... Do you actually think your semi-informed arrogance is going to make anybody more interested in using Solaris?
let it be known that i did not try to be a dick, but lets not ignore the other side of this.. s/he was testing solaris' usability based off of the install process. if you want to judge a book by its cover then i will do the same...
No. Solaris is Solaris. The Solaris running on your x86 machine is exactly the same as the Solaris running on your SPARC. Obviously there is some platform-specific code, but it is _not_ a port. They are built from the exact same source tree.
lets take an example here. gaim is gaim. the gaim running on linux is exactly the same as the gaim running on windows. they are built from the exact same source tree. gaim was ported to windows in the same manner that solaris was ported to x86.. by writing platform-specific code.
Again, don't be a dick.
Pot, kettle, black?