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(for: Solaris 10)
One has to be 100% paranoid these days I guess. Actually, I was more interested in confirming that I’d built the ISO image properly.
I think so too. I’m really looking forward to experimenting with v.10. ZFS really intrigues me. I’ll definitely be exploring this. If I understand it correctly, I can just keep throwing new disks into the machine and they’ll be automatically added to the virtual storage pool. I’ve been wanting to be able to do that for years! I’m going to attempt to get my CMS up and running on the box too (locally, as a development platform), that’ll be interesting. |
We have many Solaris boxes at work running on some quite beefy Sun hardware. Some of the older boxes run Solaris 6 (or 5.6 as it was known back then) and the newer ones run Solaris 9. I’ve never been that tempted to install Solaris on x86 machines to be honest. For me, a x86 box would mean it’s prolly a UNIX desktop that will have GNOME running on it. I’m just trying to think what (as Joe User) I would gain from throwing away Ubuntu with GNOME and running Solaris 10 with GNOME? I’m prolly not Sun’s target audience though - they’re going after those people that run Linux servers and not desktops. |
Sounds interesting! I’m always intrigued by alternative UNIX distributions so I’ll be downloading this myself to have a play. |
It’s looking good so far, but there are some quirks:
On the good side, ZFS is amazing. I have performed between 10-20 “unclean” shutdowns with no ill-effects. Of course, this is how it should be. Java Desktop System is clean and fast - I’m running it on a 550MHz PIII and it’s perfectly usable. More to follow… |
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Who would be evil enough to poison proxies with already trojan-infected fake disk images for Solaris 10? That must be one evil mastermind! (in relation to you md5 checksumming the files)
I had a nice experience with Solaris 9 on x86 (also free) on my home PC, out of personal curiosity. I never used it in a production environment, but as far as I could see, it rocks. The things I didn’t knew; or had a personal interest in, I got to see during my Cisco Unix Fundamentals class… Solaris is nice! I don’t know about the recent moves towards its open-source-ification, though.