I have an IBM laptop with Windows XP SP2 as the OS. During the last few days, I have received a few messages in my email from Sun microsystems saying that Solaris 10 is world's latest, best and absolutely free OS and works well with IBM computers. Is Solaris 10 really better than Windows XP SP2? Should I think of installing Solaris 10 or should I just stick with my current OS?
2006-12-29 22:23:54 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
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Solaris 10 SunOS 5.10 January 31, 2005 Includes x64 (AMD64/EM64T) support, DTrace (Dynamic Tracing), Solaris Containers, Service Management Facility (SMF) which replaces init.d scripts, NFSv4. Least privilege security model. Support for sun4m and UltraSPARC I processors running at speeds lower than 200 MHz removed. Support for EISA devices removed, including EISA-based PCs. Adds Java Desktop System (based on GNOME) as default desktop. Solaris 10 1/06 added the GRUB bootloader for x86 systems and iSCSI support. Solaris 10 6/06 added Sun's new filesystem ZFS. Solaris 10 11/06 added Solaris Trusted Extensions.
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2006-12-29 22:33:22 · answer #1 · answered by sweetraskels 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You must know what you do by switching to Solaris, it is specialized OS. If you ask this question Solaris is definitely not for you. It doesn't have even 10% of programs designed for XP, also it is not as user friendly as XP. Stick with XP.
2006-12-29 22:26:41 · answer #2 · answered by Mr Ivan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋