Alternative PC OS Part1:Solaris/OpenSolaris x86
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Topic: Alternative PC OS Part1:Solaris/OpenSolaris x86
Posted By: levyte357
Subject: Alternative PC OS Part1:Solaris/OpenSolaris x86
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 2:42pm
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After finally getting this to "fully" work on my "play" PC, I have considerably more respect than previously. It doesn't have the slick Install/HW detection of a Decent Linux, but will definetly be more stable, and have better SMP support. Registered versions also permit enhanced Direct net updates from SUN. It seems OpenSolaris has larger base/support device drivers in progress, which also helped me get Solaris 10 working fully. Anyone else using this for more mainstream use? EDIT:We can go into Linux/OSX etc in aonther thread chaps...  EDIT:Would also be nice to see which music apps can be ported to this.. ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
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Posted By: levyte357
Date Posted: 15 October 2009 at 10:14pm
http://www.opensolaris.com/toshibanotebook/Toshiba OpenSolaris LaptopsThe partnership between Sun and the Digital Products Division of Toshiba America Information Systems provide an easy option for people who want to use Toshiba's award winning laptops with the open source platform for the future, OpenSolaris. This agreement means that people can enjoy the great features of OpenSolaris, such as Suspend/Resume, Timeslider, ZFS along with these performant, durable laptops from Toshiba. Tecra® M10 and Portégé® R600 come preinstalled with the OpenSolaris Operating System.From Developers to Admins to Students, these laptops deliver the power to help you do your best, broad connectivity for staying in touch, along with added protections for safer computing. All this, plus the quality, innovation and reliability you’d expect from the laptop expert.
Getting StartedThe Tecra® M10 and Portégé® R600 come preinstalled with OpenSolaris and several supplemental software packages, such as the following:
For more information, see the http://www.opensolaris.com/toshibanotebook/gettingstarted.html - Getting Started page . ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
Posted By: b3n
Date Posted: 16 October 2009 at 11:38am
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only really had any experience with solaris on an oracle server at work whats the ui like? and why does it have any advantages over *nix style systems ? ------------- Matrix XP3000H, Thomann TA1050, Peavey CS1400, QSC RMX1450 2 x Eminence Kappa and PSD2002 loaded x15's 2 x SN-15MB and BM-D450 loaded X15's 2 x V18-1000 loaded 1850's Behringer DCX2496 |
Posted By: levyte357
Date Posted: 16 October 2009 at 12:17pm
Historically, SunOS (later known as Solaris) was typically stuffed into more universities, as opposed to the more corporate System V variants. Ironic, as SunOS is based on BSD, which was developed at University of California. This results in more students gaining exposure to Solaris, and continuing as professionals. Hence very strong support of Solaris by the coolest GNU/OSS "free stuff". More importantly, the environment provided by Solaris X86 is exactly the same as Solaris on big iron boxes in corporates. Meaning, playing with it at home, makes you more skilled at work.  ------------- "Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job.. You must be the other guy". |
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