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13 Dec 2008, 4:32 pm

I'm currently installing Opensolaris 2008.11 in VB. It looks pretty neat, though surprisingly similar to Ubuntu. Their GNOME desktop is basically the same as Ubuntu's but with a blue theme. Oddly enough, it doesn't seem to package Star Office by default. I might have to get that off some old floppies I have at home... but first I have to figure out how to get them off the floppies and onto something usable. It will be interesting to see how Solaris turns out to be similar to and different from Linux. Solaris is derived more directly from UNIX, and is even under Single UNIX Specification. Has anyone here ever tried Solaris? What did you think of it?

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13 Dec 2008, 4:49 pm

I knew something was escaping me. Solaris! Yes, I need to try that! Thanks Orwell.

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13 Dec 2008, 4:56 pm

Fuzzy wrote:

I knew something was escaping me. Solaris! Yes, I need to try that! Thanks Orwell.

Word of warning- keep it in VB. I've read that Solaris and Linux do not play nice with each other if they are installed on the same hard drive, so no dual-booting Ubuntu and OpenSolaris. They have an interesting filesystem (ZFS) which allegedly has a number of advantages over other types but does not do well at coexisting with the others. Odd, given that Sun Microsystems (the makers of Solaris) will sell you a computer with Windows, Linux, or Solaris preinstalled.

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13 Dec 2008, 5:51 pm

I have a pile of Sun servers in my office that have regular Solaris on them. We used them for some proprietary VoIP software we were running. We never install anything more than necessary on our servers so there was only the CLI. They seemed pretty stable - the software was more of an issue than the hardware/OS.

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13 Dec 2008, 6:12 pm

I got a version of Solaris on disc somewhere, waiting to be installed on the same hard drive (separate boot manager used) Then I can use different OS's

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13 Dec 2008, 9:45 pm

I've tried OpenSolaris once. It felt premature compared to Ubuntu to me.

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14 Dec 2008, 12:43 am

Orwell wrote:

i have played with OpenSolaris in virtualbox. Nothing to special to me. Most of the OS's using gnome have the same look. I know fedora with gnome looks basically the exact same as ubuntu and what not

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14 Dec 2008, 2:40 am

Moop wrote:

I've tried OpenSolaris once. It felt premature compared to Ubuntu to me.

It's younger and less mature than Linux, or at least the open-source part of it is. Solaris was a proprietary OS for a long time and has recently started to open up some. But OpenSolaris lacks the type of userbase and community to be able to match Linux, for now at least. Dokken: They used to use CDE instead of GNOME. I kind of wish they were still using that so I could see what CDE looked like. Ah well, if I ever get around to hacking OSX to get my favorite X11 window managers, I'll give CDE a spin.

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14 Dec 2008, 2:45 pm

Haven't seen anything special yet. I don't have the time to invest on a less mature system when I don't see that I'm getting anything out of it, so it'll stay in poor VB for a while.

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