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Sun Solaris OS

  • 30-01-2008 8:52pm
    #1
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭


    i was doing a clear out today and found a sun solaris operating system cd that i got ages ago. i have never used it so im looking for opinions on it and what its like as an os. there isnt a solaris forum in operating systems so apologies to the mods for placing this here.

    thanks


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  • #2
    mathias
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭mathias


    Solaris is a Unix OS , so that would be the forum for that , it wont work on a standard PC , ( unless its a x86 version ) , mostly its used on Sun sparcstations ,usually Risc based architecture , which is a different machine altogether , we have em at work.

    If by any chance it is an Intel x86 version , then heres a link ,

    http://www.parkansky.com/tutorials/bdlogsol.htm#basics

    Its not that popular on PC's and if its a few years old then it will probably have trouble with some of your devices , most people that go down the Unix /Linux route on a PC would go for something like Red hat , Ubuntu , and so on , as they are much easier to install.


  • #3
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    IIRC you can download the latest x86 Solaris for free these days.


  • #4
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    zilog_jones wrote: »
    IIRC you can download the latest x86 Solaris for free these days.

    You can indeed. Solaris is a very stable and fast OS, but I wouldn't use it as my desktop OS unless there was some kind of financial reward involved. :)


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