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Solaris 10 Installation and Desktop Walkthrough

Posted by timothy on from the drag-out-your-grudges-and-polish-them dept.

linuxbeta writes "On OSDir they've got a whole whack of screenshots of Sun's Solaris 10 from the first boot screen, through an x86 installation, and through either a Java Desktop System 3 or CDE (Common Desktop Environment) 1.6 desktop. It's nice to have a look at Java Desktop System 3 while it's not even available for Linux (yet). I dunno... looks like Linux to me. I know about the licensing issues with Solaris 10, but I think they've got something going on here."

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  1. Err...looks like Linux? by deong · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Funny, I didn't see a picture of a kernel. It looks like Gnome, an event deemed less shocking by the fact that it is Gnome.

  2. Re:It looks like it's running through vmware by drxray · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That makes it a hell of a lot easier to take screenshots when you're booting.

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  3. Re:Solaris for the masses? by Mdalek · · Score: 5, Insightful


    But is there any way that Solaris has a chance to grow enough to become any kind of threat to MS?

    What? People run Windows on big iron?

  4. Other features? by lewiz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd be much more interested to know how Solaris 10 handles things like:

    CD/DVD writing,
    wireless cards,
    PCMCIA/Cardbus devices,
    USB hotswapping (i.e. does it pop up and say you've plugged a USB HDD in and offer to mount it?),
    Input types (i.e. Japanese, Chinese, etc.).

    I've recently been trying out many Linux distros (FC3, SuSE 9.2, Mandrake (latest -- 10.1?), Gentoo and Debian) to check out how well they handle these things. So far I've been most impressed with Ubuntu. As a long-time FreeBSD user I have been very impressed how things have advanced with Linux in the last four or five years.

    I'm aware how well Solaris 10 cuts it in the server arena but does it even come close to the likes of FC, SuSE and Ubuntu for desktop use?

  5. Re:Take this with a pinch of salt by blastwave · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, I have been in the pilot project from the very beginning and there are builds of OpenSolaris up and running. We have the source and are working on a PowerPC port to the Open Desktop Workstation : http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php We all don't live in the Linux world. Some of us want an OS that can run on 128 simultaneous processors as well as one or four or twelve all with the same kernel. Not a cluster. One big computer.

  6. Re:Still with CDE? by SunFan · · Score: 5, Insightful


    One of the absolutely huge advantages of Sun over, say, Red Hat, is that Sun doesn't pull the carpet out from under their users every three years. OpenWindows stuck around until Solaris 9, I think, which means CDE is good to be around for quite some time. Sun always provides predictable transitions and always documents what will happen in advance for customers to plan ahead.

    Sun also has a good record for maintaining compatibility to older versions of Solaris. I was quite pleased to see that older SunPCi IIpro cards can still work under Solaris 10 with JDS (with Windows 98, at least). Officially, these cards are supported only up to Solaris 9.

    If I were running a big shop with my behind accountable for more than a year in the future, Sun is not a bad bet.

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