Basics

Basics

Posted Aug 17, 2005 20:41 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
Parent article: Sun's Linux killer shows promise (Register)

Installed Solaris 10 x86 on a test system and it still lacks basic stuff that's been around in modern Linux distros for quite some time:

- decent packaging system
- decent installer
- decent hardware support

Had to go through several boxes before it actually installed.

I'm sure there are goodies in there that aren't in Linux, but unless I really, really needed some of those goodies, I would not bother. On Sparc, well, probably a different story. But that's an island in itself these days. Once you venture in, your choices are really limited.

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