Advantages?
What advantages are there to Solaris? Is it really as pure UNIX as what you can get now? How hard is it to install simple things? (window managers, etc)
I'm curious as to whether I should try it out or not. |
Solaris is UNIX. Heck, even Mac OS 10.5 is consided UNIX now.
http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/r.../brand3555.htm Simple things for you might be difficult for others. Learning Solaris might be difficult if you don't know how to use CLI, but administering Solaris is not limited to CLI. I'd recommend trying out OpenSolaris. The free DVD disc set comes with a live bootable disc. http://opensolaris.org/os/project/starterkit/ http://www.opensolaris.org/kits/ |
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You are right. pkg-get is however not part of Solaris nor does it updates Solaris original packages. As already discussed in this forum, there is a work in progress to enhance the Solaris own packaging system. See Open Solaris preview (Indiana).
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Here is an interesting read on why choose Solaris instead of Linux:
http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archi...ver-Linux.html |
Well, I figure complications may come with it, but what the heck, it'll keep me from getting bored.
I'm running Solaris 10 right now. I have the Developer Edition, but only installed the "regular". Can I still set up a server with this? And I don't mean apache, the one that comes with Solaris instead. (Side note: for some reason, Solaris 10 seems to be "nicer" to my computer. I can hear less "straining". Its weird. I like it. lol) @kebabbert, thanks for the article, very enlightening in some ways |
Also, I have no sound...
Apparently I have no gstreamer volume control anything installed. Is this a matter of letting my user have more rights, or installing gstreamers or what? |
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The "volume control" is already on the panel, but thats where I get the error. I've only had problems with my soundcard in DesktopBSD. Just installed the needed gstreamer plugins and it was fine. I don't know where to start here.
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The tool to do it is on the installation dvd (/sddtool). Also, you didn't answer to my server definition question. |
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I don't see any tool like that on the DVD. Is there a real chance that it isn't supported when Debian, Fedora, and every other Linux distro I've used was fine? (as far as the server, it sounded like Solaris has its own generic server) |
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