Just wondered what Solaris 10 is like? Is it good/bad, easy to use, was the "$500 million investment" wasted, etc? I'm a pretty raw recruit into Linux so I'm just looking at it for learning purposes. Anybody have any thoughts on it?

Moved: This thread is more suitable in the Solaris forum and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

Personally I do like Solaris 10. Although I have not used Solaris 10 on an Intel platform. But it depends what you are interested in learning. By playing with Solaris what you see will be very close to what you would see on Sun boxes, which are very common in government and conservative corporate enterprise systems (not to say that Linux is not there as well, but Sun has a very good government sales force.)

There is a look of good material available to learn about Solaris, but in my experience it does not seem to have quite as strong of a user community as does linux/freesd. But fortunately much of the basic advice for these platforms overlaps.

Basically, I would suggest that if it captures your interest, download it, install it and play around, then decide for yourself.

Enjoy

Thanks for the reply, and for moving the post (I didn't see the Solaris forum, I thought it belonged in the Distro section, sorry...).

Would it be possible to run both SUSE and Solaris on one hard drive but on different partitions? Or, failing that, having Solaris on one hard drive and Win XP on another and choosing which one to boot up?

As long as you have free space on your hard disk, you can install Solaris alonside Linux or Windows. On my non production machine, I have FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris 10 and various Linux distros on the same hard drive. I use grub as the bootloader.

and also probably its better for you to get solaris express instead of solaris 10 ... from what i heard , solaris express support most of the new/latest technologies from sun , for eg. a new functionality which can run linux applications in solaris , in comparision solaris 10 is much a conservatively stable production release , i mean by installing solaris express you will be more invloved in solaris for x86 and its ahead of solaris 10 ...


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I love Solaris 10. I'm migrating to it (away from Linux) for all new installs where the hardware is supported!

Sun says Solaris 10 can run on x86, but I cant install it. I put the disk(dvd) and reboot, I am stuck at the blue screen(damn like Windows 98). Does anyone have the same issue?
My spec:
*ASUS P4S8X motherbard
SiS® 648 North Bridge / SiS® 963 South Bridge
FSB 400/533
BIOS Award BIOS
Memory Three 184-pin DIMM / 3GB max PC2700
Expansion Slots 6 PCI Slots / 1 AGP Slot 8x
Onboard IDE 2 UltraDMA 66 / 100 / 133

*Pentium IV 2.4Ghz

*1.5GB ram 2700 CL 2.5
*80gb Western digital hard drive 8mb buffer
*40gb Western digital hard drive 2mb buffer
*Evga geforce 6200 256mb AGP
*Askey TV99 PCI tv capture card
*Intergrated AC97 sound onbard
*Intergrated SIS900 LAN card

Thanks in advance

Indeed "can", but not "will always".
Better checking the HCL before buying new H/W, yours seems neither brand new nor extravagant, it probably just should work but hasn't been yet reported to.
What blue screen ? When does it appears ?
Is this Solaris 10 FCS or Update 1 ?
Have you tried Solaris Express ?

I dont know what is FCS but the update 1 is released on Jan 6, 2006. Mine was downloaded on Dec 2005.
The blue screen i mentioned is the first screen you see when you boot from the installation DVD. It has one line on the top left corner: "solaris installation..." and nothing appear, the HDD LED doesnt blink, nothing at all. How do you install it?
THAI

FCS means "first customer shipment", i.e. the initial release of a software.

Are you sure the DVD data is not corrupted ?

By following the installation procedure, no magic.

As I already suggested, try either Update 1 or one of the Solaris Express based distributions, that blue screen you dislike is no more there.

Got Solaris installed, I think. I now have two SUSEs (one GNOME and one KDE) and one Solaris partitions on a hard drive. However, I can't get GRUB to recognize Solaris. Is this something that's possible to fix so that I can get the option to select system at boot?

Grub can chainload Solaris up to 10 FCS, newer Solaris and Solaris Express releases include an enhanced grub that directly boot it.

So should I try to make Solaris my primary boot partition and their version of Grub should pick up my SUSE installs? Or, alternatively, do a completely fresh install of Solaris, wiping everything else off the drive, and then reinstall SUSE?

Sun's grub should be able to boot SuSE, but may not for some odd reason (it happened to me once), in that case, it helps if grub is also installed on the SuSE partition, then one grub can chainload to the other (and reciprocally).