VaKo Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Just downloaded Solaris 10 and I'm wondering if anyone's used it here? What do you think of it compared to BSD or Linux? Any advice, good guides, books or tutorials you know of? And as a FreeBSD/CentOS user, are there any gotcha's I might run into? I'm looking at this from the corp. point of view for server/firewall/infrastructure uses, not desktop deployment. I'll be running it on a Win2k3 Enterprise box inside VMware server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 I've used it, but find it very bulky with the minimum install being very large so in the end didn't play with it that much. I've recently though received a promotional pack with 3 DVDs of all the latest stuff so I may begin playing with it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 I've only dealt with it from the lowly user perspective, and the thing that struck me the most is how limited its stock utilities are. If you've gotten used to the GNU toolchain you'll soon notice a lot of program options that you consider standard (and typically rather useful) to be missing. Ludicrous stuff like their version of vi not being able to cope with a large screen, or the default shell being zsh. All of this can be remedied with the installation of some tools, but since I wasn't an admin, and the admin was happy with the system so I had to blunder about with it to get it to do what I want. I personally don't see the need for Solaris on anything but a SPARC box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Funny, I just downloaded it and was going to ask the same question. (well, not exactly) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 14, 2007 Author Share Posted May 14, 2007 I do keep wondering about it, it seems to be the buisness when it comes to shifting data around and a lot of places will pay well for people who know how to use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 it seems to be the buisness when it comes to shifting data around And that is very true, particularly on that SPARC hardware. Computationally they're getting their asses whooped by that wretched x86 architecture (hence those Opteron-powered Sun servers) but when all you need to do is move data from point A to point B, or deal with truly staggering amounts of memory or diskspace the tools that Solaris comes with supposedly come into a league of their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted May 14, 2007 Author Share Posted May 14, 2007 Hmmm, anyone know where I can get some cheap SPARC gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 eBay ebay ebay I think the top one's the one to go for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 eBay ebay ebay I think the top one's the one to go for. I have actually bought that same model from that exact same ebayer, although mine came with HDD included. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 15 quid sounds like a steal considering what you're getting. I just doubt you can put a 200 gigger in there, so it might be worth while to get it with an ancient IDE HD that you at least know works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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