Solaris...stuff.

[Bleakvoid]

Anybody have solaris running on on of their comps? Cool, ain't it...never freezes...thoughts?

[Norgus]

what is solaris, what is its intention. Um is it a good OS? Is it free?

[nosebluntsmoker]

Solaris, the country in the sky. It's inhabitants are the -Abel-, or shepherds, to the earth-dwelling -Lambs-...
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Also an OS from Sun Microsystems...
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/

[Neverin]

... monkeys?...

[jerome187]

its an OS, its free to download i think, but its not opensource like linux (i'm pretty sure about that anyways)

[Norgus]

argh solaris confuses me. Just get linux hehe. www.gentoo.org

[Bleakvoid]

OMFG...computer nerds that don't know and love Solaris...Solaris is Sun Microsystem's custom OS designed for their SPARCstation series of PC's; it can be modified to run on AMD or Intel systems. Solaris is custom built to your specifications, they install it, and it works <b><i>perfectly</i></b>. No crashes at all. If a program does a divide by zero, it modifies it to divide by 1x10�-10000...it's a wonderful system, better than 'nix, even. It's even 1/5th the cost of Window$, being in the range of $100 for a single license on x86. It's worth it, I think, though not many people agree with me.

<a href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/x86/index.html">Solaris for x86 (Intel & AMD)</a>
<a href="http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?cid=91103&parentId=82426">Solaris 9 prices and shipping info</a>

[jerome187]

you CAN download it, for free!

http://survey.sun.com/servlet/viewsf...=sol9_download

[Bleakvoid]

Thanks, jerome...that rocks. I'm going to d/l it, then put it on my comp...are you using it?

Also, on top of all that, Norgus...it's Linux-based, so you can run all of your 'nix stuff within it, and still get the benefits of Solaris.

[jerome187]

No i havent tryed it yet, I might tho. I've wanted to tryout FreeBSD also someday.

Let me know how it is.

[Solitude]

i think solaris is designed for sun's systems...not sure.i've heard the latest version is a vast improvement upon the last.

[Bleakvoid]

Solaris is developed for:
1) Sun SPARCstations and servers
2) Sun x86 stations and servers
3) Intel & AMD based systems

All three are separate programs, as Suns CPU's are much more complex than Intel or AMD...a Sun Fire server with a 1.2ghz SPARC III chip is almost twice as fast as a Xeon board.