Solaris

[igknighted]

Ok, so I am downloading Solaris right now because I want to broaden my OS horizons (and since I do plenty of Java programing it seems like a suitable platform). Has anyone else played with Solaris? What are your thoughts, where might I run into issues? What are its strong points and weaknesses?

[jeffc313]

Ok, so I am downloading Solaris right now because I want to broaden my OS horizons (and since I do plenty of Java programing it seems like a suitable platform). Has anyone else played with Solaris? What are your thoughts, where might I run into issues? What are its strong points and weaknesses?
iirc, Solaris is very, very similar to BSD. I could be wrong, I also heard that there may be a solaris/debian hybrid that I will have to check it out if it ever happens.
http://www.softpanorama.org/Articles/solaris_vs_linux.shtml
if you want to read that, you may be helped, i never read however.

[Mateo]

you never hear much about solaris. i wonder why.

[Artemis3]

I have been told it is slow with i386 hardware compared to the Sun gear. Other than that, it is the same thing which can be very useful if you plan to work with Solaris in the near future.

Don't forget to try Freebsd if you haven't done so. This advise goes to all gnu/linux users.

[Kernel Sanders]

PC BSD is worth more of a look tbh. They are even developing proverbial .exe files! N00BS will LOVE that :cool:

[igknighted]

PC BSD is worth more of a look tbh. They are even developing proverbial .exe files! N00BS will LOVE that :cool:

Well, the only language I know really well is Java, so I feel right at home (and its great for development). Overall I like it. Some of the hardware detection was superb, as my video card (a very troublesome ATI card at the moment) worked beautifully from the beginning and the whole system feels snappier than any linux distro I have used.

I still haven't workout out how to connect to the internet however, or get sound, so until I can figure these out I can't really put it through its paces. I think I need drivers, but I cant mount my linux partition because it wont read ext3 and it doesnt want to mount my flash drive automatically (and they renamed all the drives so I don't know what to guess). In short, I have a lot to learn, but I have been impressed despite the issues so far.

If anyone has Solaris experience (or just 1337 *NIX skillz) and can help with any of ^^that^^ it would be greatly appreciated

[igknighted]

iirc, Solaris is very, very similar to BSD. I could be wrong, I also heard that there may be a solaris/debian hybrid that I will have to check it out if it ever happens.
http://www.softpanorama.org/Articles/solaris_vs_linux.shtml
if you want to read that, you may be helped, i never read however.

The distro you speak of is called Nexenta, and its already 31st on the distrowatch rankings (while still in the Alpha phase)

http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki

[Brunellus]

I am moving this to the appropriate sub-forum.