New Solaris 10, How Do You Think? OS 2cent.

[chesskidd]

Sun has made a free x86 version of Solaris 10 for everyone to download since last month. I think their approach is a good move. :D
Has anyone tried that? How is it? Since it is free, will the kernel sources and other sources be provided too?

Just heard that some people said Solaris is a super beast on SPARC machine, that really? how about Solaris on PC, and its overall performance for users?

[matte03]

Are you sure its free? I looked on Sun's site and didn't see anything about a free x86 Solaris download. Could you share the link?

[The Linux Kid]

<EDIT> Below is the Solaris 9 trial, now looking for 10 </EDIT>

<EDIT2> I have found 10. The address is: http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/sol_index.html

The download link is at the bottom of the page. If you want a 90 day trial of 9, look at the bottom of my post....</EDIT2>

I can only find a 90 day trial, which is still pretty good since I generally reinstall every 60 days...

The link is

http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/x86/evaluate04.html

The Linux Kid

[matte03]

Excellent, looks like I will be installing Solaris 9 tonight. I'll be back with a review.

[Hayl]

Hopefully, they have done a lot of work on it... the last time I tried x86 Solaris, the hardware support was terrible and the entire thing was very buggy.

[chesskidd]

matte03,

it's at http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/get.html Sun's website. Somehow it says download Solaris 10, but it points to Software Express :confused: Still wonder why they didn't just use the original name. Is that the correct Solaris 10? cuz I downloaded 3 CD iso-s of it.

There is something that I doubt, but just to make sure I still wanna ask this question :o, since they are giving away it free, will sources be provided free too or just free OS but close-sourced?? ( like Kernel sources)

p.s.
just a thought... why getting solaris 9, since 10, is currently available? (software express = solaris 10, if that's true)
I would like to hear your review too, tell me about how the installation is and running on your computer.

well... I did at least kind of try at the installation, but I freaked out.. cuz lots of things that I didn't understand during the installation process (unlike linux, I think I get used to the HOW-TO how to install Slackware, Mandrake, RedHat up and running). Installing Solaris is uber new to me :( , that's why I chickened out after a while, cuz I wasn't sure if I did things right or not.

and to admin :rolleyes:
why moving this thread to .iso Confused - which distro?
cuz I thought this isn't asking about which distro "confusion-oriented questions and comparision with other distros." (well.. it might in a way later on, depends on what other people think of it), but my main intention of posting this thread to "other UNIX-based" is mostly to ask about evaluation of Solaris :rolleyes: still don't get it :o

[matte03]

I have all the images downloaded and burned but the install wont boot on my spare laptop Gateway Solo 1100 I believe but the install starts on my HP Ze4560 so if I can somehow resize my current partitions so I dont have to reinstall I will install Solaris and Linux on my notebook....and that's the current status.

[Bowtie]

Downloading now, will check it out in the morning.:D

[chesskidd]

cool :D

but... software express = solaris 10 ???? :confused:
which ones did you guys download???

[Loki3]

Hmm. I'll be watching this one with interest.

[Bowtie]

sol-beta-10 ..........zip is what I'm downloading so I hope it's Solaris 10;) I guess I'll have to figure out which box to wipe out to try Solaris. I've got plenty of sleep time to figure it out though.:D

[elitewhiteghost]

I was told that sun don't have a gnu that true?

[chesskidd]

it has :p

according the SUN sparc's solaris machines at my school. it has um... X, i think fvwm that it is running on.
maybe the system admins loaded those on the machine.
don't know if fvwm comes as a default thought, but i believe it has some kind of x windows , cdx or something forgot the name :D

[nouse66]

Originally posted by The Linux Kid
<EDIT> Below is the Solaris 9 trial, now looking for 10 </EDIT>

<EDIT2> I have found 10. The address is: http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/sol_index.html

The download link is at the bottom of the page. If you want a 90 day trial of 9, look at the bottom of my post....</EDIT2>

I can only find a 90 day trial, which is still pretty good since I generally reinstall every 60 days...

The link is

http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/x86/evaluate04.html

The Linux Kid

the whole download license is pretty confusing. i got solaris 9 from here:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html
and it just says it's free. i got the link from osnews.com i think a week or 2 ago (saying x86 solaris is free again for download).

[chesskidd]

I think this thread is dead now... :rolleyes: nobody says anything about solaris 10 afterwards.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by elitewhiteghost
I was told that sun don't have a gnu that true?

...Of course they don't- It's too hot there-- a gnu would burn up on the sun! :eek:

[cybrjackle]

I'm running Sol10 on a couple sparc box's and I have gnome 2.6 and kde-3.2.1 running on them. ;-)

I just found this site last week:

http://www.blastwave.org/

I'm not sure how clean there packages are, but everything seems to be running.