[Wolves] Sun and Solaris - worth a go??

[Simon Burke]

On 19/3/04 9:05 am, "Matthew Revell" <wolveslug at understated.co.uk> wrote:

> David Goodwin wrote:
> 
>>> I'm thinking about sticking Solaris on one of my spare Athlon machines
>>> and perhaps running it as a combined file server, for my own network,
>>> and web server. Worth a go?
>>> 
>> Can't hurt :)
> 
> Yeah, that's pretty much my attitude :)

I've recently tried solaris 10 on one of my machines and it went quite well,
though I struggled a bit getting it work work with my graphics card. So I'd
say yeah give it a go. The installer has improved a bit, its usable by me so
its improved lol.

>> I tried intel solaris (7) out ages ago on a PII 400, and found it's
>> default install to be somewhat lacking (i.e. bash not there etc, and
>> only CDE which I don't like) so I dropped it and went back to Linux.
> 
> Arg. I imagine it at least comes with Gnome, now.
Don't ask me Im still using blackbox, or mayb Sunbs java desktop maybe??
Heh.
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