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."

"There haven't been many reviews"

[REBloomfield]

You're right, in fact, a Google search for "solaris 10 review" only brings up 1,200,000 matches....

Re:releasing source code

[CrankyFool]

Yeah. I mean, it's only by encouraging OSS development of their platform that they'll finally, one day in the far distant future, be able to say that they've got a rock-solid OS that someone chooses to, say, deploy a large enterprise CRM or OLTP project. I mean, really, right now who the heck uses Solaris anyway? Just a bunch of amateurs in their basements.

Re:Is solaris still used often?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sun execs use it to lead investors to believe that the company still has a future.

Re:Is solaris still used often?

[luvirini]

Ofcourse Not. But some banks have actually modernised to really radical things called Minicomputers. Ofcourse they have to be IBM. I mean they must be daring to go to iSeries instead of the zSeries.

Re:"There haven't been many reviews"

[MuMart]

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Re:Is solaris still used often?

[freminlins]

Refuses to create a Solaris partition if a Linux Swap partition is present (... because both share the same partition id 82, but other OS'es at least give you the option of "ignore this partition, and create a new one instead! I've seen this with Linux the other way round. Mandrake insists on selecting a Solaris partition as swap and won't let you change it. Brain dead Linux.

Re:struggling with solaris 10 for the last week

[justins]

So do YOU know how to talk directly to chips on the ISA bus

Yeah, but when I do they talk back to me, and tell me to do... terrible things. :(

Re:Is solaris still used often?

[ultranova]

Sun newbie here, just curious: what does the /usr/ccs/* stand for?

"Carboncopysoftware", of course. Sun, being enterprise-class server OS, also has enterprise-class warez tools. A home user might be willing to wait for a few days as an app downloads, but in a large datacenter, the download must be complete NOW !

"/usr/ccs/" -folder includes enterprise-class Gnutella- Edonkey2000- and BitTorrent-clients. They all strictly enforce the client-server model by using a built-in webserver as user interface, are written in Java, and support such essential functions as replication (to allow a secondary warez server to immediately take over if the primary fails) and IP addres spoofing (by dynamically reprogramming random routers in various backbone networks) to both protect against hostile copyright enforcement and to "listen in" on other people getting the same file.

Yes - Solaris, the right tool for enterprise class copyright infringement !

Re:Is solaris still used often?

[dotgain]

Anything that is NOT a DOS partition table is certainly NOT bad or dumb. Like the 640k base RAM crap, the DOS partition table is just another hangover from a myopic design.

Get any of a Mac, Sparc or Indy. Things seem alien and peculiar at first, even unnecessary. Until about six months later when you realise all the troble that you've had on x86 boxes just can't be had on anything else.

Getting Solaris to run on an x86, when it's so used to running on real hardware, must have been quite a challenge. Thanks and well done, Sun. On behalf of my forebearers, I apologise for the existence of the x86.