I have a Sun AXi box with 440MHZ SPARC IIi chip that run's Solaris 8 and 9 just fine. Some of our applications get hosted on Solaris, so I use it for compatibility testing. I have never had any complaints about Solaris - it just was not as available as Linux on such a wide variety of hardware, with good community support. Performance always seemed comparable to Linux on the same hardware, but I did not do any benchmarks. It does some things very well and is supported by enterprise software applications well. We will just have to wait and see how open source Solaris works out. It cannot hurt - its another option and the competition may actually be good for Linux. My $.02 - Richard -----Original Message----- From: ReymanX [mailto:reymanx@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 3:26 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Where suse will be ?
It does come with gnome, although I'm not certain which version. I suspect that it also comes with CDE since a lot of people will yell if CDE isn't there (old dogs, new tricks, etc.). I thought the default was to be gnome, but I could be mistaken. It certainly is the default at work nowadays (ok, so I confess - I work at Sun). But we don't have any Solaris 10 machines available yet in our group.
Steve
The admin tools may still be old fashioned (it's at least not comparable to yast...)
The default is CDE, at least in the beta. I didn't get around to seeing what was available at the login screen - will check later. Even new dogs don't seem to be any more flexible, we've had guys who have done Solaris 1 and 2 who refuse to use the bash shell because the lecturer got them to use ksh and I know of only one guy who came back a bash convert, some of them spend the time to become experts in using "ksh -o vi" instead, something I am determined not ever to use, I can't even remember what the keyboard fingering is for any of it. If on 2.6 and 7 I can't get bash installed (customer's objection), I just type it all in. What, no scroungers in Sun? Surely you could get your hands on an Ultra5/10 and a cheap, i.e non-Sun IDE drive. Regards Sid. --
I really dont know about solaris 10, my first *nix machine is linux back 1998.. :) As far as u know, solaris need big machine to run it. That's why i love this linux especially suse cause it has very good admin tools (yast) and support.. Do you guys think that this *dinosaurs* solaris still be a good thing to play ? cause now we can download it freely not like back then and it support x86 machine. regards, -- Arie Reynaldi Zanahar reymanx at gmail.com http://www.reynaldi.com -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com