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No, not the Tarkovsky Sci-Fi classic or the recent remake with George Clooney, I refer the the Solaris OS by Sun Microsystems, of Java and Star Office fame, who have also knocked out more than a few Unix workstations and servers in their time...
Now that this OS has been released for the x86 platform and can be downloaded for free from their website, can any of you *nix veterans out there tell me if Solaris is any use whatsoever on a home PC/workstation? Just curious, I know I'm probably better off trying one of the BSDs or Slackware, which is downloading as I type...
Sorry this isn't a Linux question as such, this just seemed the least inappropriate place to ask. 
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I tried to download this a while back to have a play with but I think you have to pay something for the privilege :-( bit off when one isn't going to use for commercial purposes. Even M$ release time-bomb versions of server and exchange.
Despite what people say Linux *is* user friendly, it's just choosy over who it's friends are.
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Solaris X86. Hmm. Not really much point for home really. It likes to run on 'known' hardware, e.g. the likes of soundblaster, 3com, adaptec cards & with standard processors etc.
With the new linuxes they're far more tolerant of offbeat hardware, and there's much more development going on. Furthermore, there's as many applications as you could possibly want available.
I run Solaris on Sparc for a living. I just never got the 'point', or to the point of running it on intel.
If you want to learn solaris, fine. Load it up, but for a home desktop i'd say go with a Linux distro.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Paul.
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Thanks zymurgy, having stuck a toe in the water via Suse and Mandrake, I now have Slackware on dev/sdb. I'll give Solaris a miss as your message confirms what I suspected, and see if I can get my head round configuring this one properly.
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I got solaris on a sun ultra 5 (sparc) its good to play with but not a desktop os. Makes a idea server, im thinking of using it as a mail server. If your interested in unix, its a must! And you know a sparc system running solaris is the ultimate toy  Except for maybe a sun fire server 
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