photoman's Review of Sun Solaris 10
9th Feb 2007
Overall Rating
- Value for money
- Ease of Set Up
- Time Software UsedOver 1 Year
- Ease of Use
Free, fast, secure, multi platform
Bad Points
Low functionality of GUI, printer spooler has to be replaced
General Comments
Sun Solaris 10 holds more than 100 world records in performance.
Everybody can register and download a free version for his platform (versions for the most common platforms are available).
Setup is not complicated for experienced users.
This operating is best for .com grade sites, many sites and companies are powered by Solaris. It is powerful operating system with high security level.
A lot of tools come on free downloadable Solaris 10 Companion DVD, it has compilers, alternative print spooler (CUPS) that is much easier to use that the original one.
You can choose to install Solaris Management Console, which I highly recommend, allows to manage users, groups and computers from GUI.
Still, a lot of functionality, like services have access only from terminal ("command line").
Solaris 10 comes with CDE desktop (based on old Motiff) and Java desktop which is much more friendly and Windows like and has more functionality, but works slower.
Solaris can work with a lot of tools and programs that are built to it, like web browser Mozilla (unfortunately not all sites support it, and it have some printing problems with page division), Studio 11 (great tool for software development), Open Office and much more.
In summary, it is great operating system, probably the best available for servers, but still lacks applications for home users, thats why I rate ease of use 6/10.
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Web Links
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Solaris Operating System
Solaris Operating System - Be Brilliant Faster ... » Download Solaris 10 Now ... Skip to Content Sun and Oracle Channel Sun How to Buy Log In United States [Change] English
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Solaris Operating System - Get Solaris 10
Free Solaris 10 10/09 Download ... Buy the Solaris 10 10/09 DVD Media Kit ... Have you tested Solaris on Sun Systems?
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Sun Solaris 10 - Advisories by Product - Secunia Advisories -
Vulnerability Report: Sun Solaris 10 ... This vulnerability report for Sun Solaris 10 contains a complete overview of all Secunia advisories affecting it.
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Browse Product Documentation - Sun Microsystems
Solaris 10 Operating System ... Solaris 10 What's New Collection ... Solaris 10 On Sun Hardware Documentation
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#881872
According to Sun, Solaris 10 (SunOS 5.10) and Solaris "Nevada" (SunOS 5.11) are affected by this issue.
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Sun plays hide and seek with key Solaris 10 goodies ? The Register
Again; Sun's OpenSolaris marketing term has an advisory board; Sun burns Solaris and Linux staffers...
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Sun starts Solaris 10 salutations ? The Register
With Solaris 10, Sun plans to up the competition against AIX and HP-UX on midrange and high-end systems and pitch Solaris as a major competitor to Linux on low-end boxes.
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Sunfreeware - Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Sun
COMPANION CD ARCHIVE UPDATED AND EXPANDED Sun's Companion CD packages are available for Solaris 8, 9, 10 in both iso archives and individual packages.
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Sun Belgium > Home Page
Sun Microsystems Belgium; Develops Innovative Networking Computing Technologies To Optimise Your IT Assets With Energy-Efficient Servers, Storage, Open Source Software, Tools, Services & Training.
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Welcome to iGoJava - iGoLogic JBOX SUN Solaris 10 x86 Java J2SE
iGoJava JBOX SUN JAVA J2SE Embedded Development Kit SDK ... In partnership with VIA Technologies and SUN Microsystems, iGoLogic is pleased to introduce the JBOX™ product available to embedded
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