Sun Is Giving Away Solaris 10 DVDs

nothing yet.

out of interest what version of linux do people run on there sun kit? Debian?
 
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Solaris, while notoriusly hard to use, is actually an extremely advanced and polished OS.

I learnt *nix through Linux like many others in this thread and initially hated Solaris but when you get to know it it's extremely intuitive and of genuine enterprise quality. For small deployments this really won't mean much and most people would rather not go to the bother of using it but when you need to scale systems and need an extremely stable setup, it's fantastic.
 
titchard said:
Hey Guys,

Out of interest - has anyone received there free diss yet?

Rich
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Nope, not yet
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A lot of our web servers at work are solaris, it can be a bit of a pain having to switch back and forth from linux mode to solaris mode but it I do like it :)
 
v0n said:
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Come on. You know I'm right. :)
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Ain't that the truth.

Garp said:
Solaris is the bane of my life. If there is a non-standard way to do things, you can trust Solaris to do it that way.
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And that.

Thankfully, my last experience with Solaris was in August 1991. The old Sun pre-Sparc hardware, built (and weighing) like a small tank though it was, it did actually work quite well. We got a lovely big 20" colour monitor with it, which back than was something of a novelty in Unix land. X windows got rapidly 'adopted' on that box I can tell you (can't remember if it was supplied or I ported it myself - I did a bit of both).

Then we got what was (at the time) a brand new Sparc box. Eurgh. I gave that one a wide berth, and good thing too.

Then I left the company. Went back there a year later (and will there now), but took a different job that didn't bring me into contact with that sort of hardware again.
 
Garp said:
Solaris is the bane of my life. If there is a non-standard way to do things, you can trust Solaris to do it that way.

Instead of just coming up with their own variants of commands entirely, they use identical commands to Linux, but change the argument flags completely. Talk about messing with your brain when you're routinely going between BSD, Ubuntu, Debian and Solaris. Add in the utterly moronic "killall" literally killing a box dead so that you then need to hard reboot it (why? Why? WHY?), when on every other flavour of a POSIX system I've ever touched it just killed all instances of the specified service.
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Come on dont be so defeatist!

Think i'll roll out a Solaris8 box tomorrow for NOC to use....
 
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