Can anyone give me some infomation about the Solaris 10 OS?
I'm a total ignorant about that system so I'd be glad if someone could help me:
1.- Does Solaris is source based or binary or any other type?
2.- Does it have a repository system like Linux, BSD?
3.- Does it work fine with most hardware and automatically detects it?
4.- Does it have good multimedia (mp3, avi, divx, etc.) support?
5.- Can it have dual booting with windows or linux or BSD?
6.- Does the terminal works the same way as linux?
7.- What office application does it uses and is it good and Microsoft Office compatible?
8.- Does it have language support for in my case spanish?
9.- Is it easy or difficult to use and install?

And I think that's all.

1.- Does Solaris is source based or binary or any other type?
usually binary, but you can build most of it from source if you like
2.- Does it have a repository system like Linux, BSD?
yes
3.- Does it work fine with most hardware and automatically detects it?
more or less, it improves fastly, but is still behind linux on that side
4.- Does it have good multimedia (mp3, avi, divx, etc.) support?
not bad
5.- Can it have dual booting with windows or linux or BSD?
sure
6.- Does the terminal works the same way as linux?
yes, although it is lacking the virtual console thing
7.- What office application does it uses and is it good and Microsoft Office compatible?
StarOffice is bundled (Sun is the Star Office editor), Star Office is based on Open Office, whose source code was given to the community by Sun.
8.- Does it have language support for in my case spanish?
yes
9.- Is it easy or difficult to use and install?
average
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Thanks for that, I think I am gonna give it a try.

How do i set the environment, the export command is available for just 1 session
thanks

Please elaborate on what do you want.

for example " $PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin" , and i want it to be "$PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/opt/sfw/bin", if i type "PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/opt/sfw/bin" , it's temporary OK, but when i type "#env"
$PATH is still "PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"

Okay, so it looks like you want to have sfw to be in root PATH after an su.

I already answered to a very similar question recently, have a look at the /etc/default/su and /etc/default/login files.

I've editted those files, but when i type #$PATH, the result still is "/usr/bin:/usr/sbin: not found "

So what did you changed in the files, and what precisely are you doing before this error message shows up ?

I have no crystall ball, it's hard to help if you fail to explain most of the steps you follow.

By the way, one do not execute a PATH like you do, to see its value, use "echo $PATH".

Sorry,that is:
and i editted
the same with file su
Maybe you don't understand me, I want that whenever i login, i type
the result will be:

The lines you changed are still comments, no chance they have any effect.

Remove the leading "#".

1. Solaris {10, 9, 8, ...} are/were binary based systems. Solaris Express (Nevada) is based
on the OpenSolaris codebase, which is open for all.

2. Solaris does have a few very nice repositories. Check Blastwave and SunFreeware

3. I have the latest Solaris Express build (snv_b33) on Desktop and ThinkPad, and everything
works fine. Though I miss hardware acceleration on my ThinkPad (i915G graphics). But this
will be sorted when DRI becomes available on Solaris. Those with nVIDIA cards should be fine.
Even my external USB hard disk works fine.

A BIG PLUS is the automatic X configuration. On my ThinkPad, I didn't have to edit a single
line anywhere to config my display, touchpad, trackpoint etc. Everything was taken care of
automatically. Mind you, not even SuSE 10 was able to achieve this automatically.

4. Solaris plays MP3 out of the box. Moreover, this is more of an application issue. If you
install relevant packages from repositories, you can play everything on Solaris.

5. Solaris Express releases come with GRUB, which is THE ONE in the MultiBoot World. Solaris 10
and previous ones came with strange bootloaders that were not compatible with others. Solaris
10 Update1 corrected this and included GRUB backported from Solaris Express.

6. Solaris terminal is much more conservative when compared to Linux. It also doesn't support
Virtual Terminals (though it is on the wishlist), as jlliagre noted.

7. It comes with StarOffice7 by default. But you can install any office suite which has a UNIX
port, like OpenOffice or KOffice.

8. It does.

9. Solaris installation is easier and more straightforward than that of most Linuxen, IMHO.
Since it's closer to the traditional UNIX philosophy than any distribution of Linux, you'll
have to spend some time learning ins-and-outs of the Solaris system.

The things I don't like about Solaris (Express, in general):

1. JDS. It plain s*cks. Use CDE or install any of BlackBox, FluxBox, FVWM or WindowMaker or even
XFce from Blastwave. IMHO, Sun should get rid of JDS in default install.

2. Really, there is only one thing that I don't like about Solaris. See above ^.
3. I SAID there is only one thing that I don't like about Solaris. See above ^.
4. CAN'T YOU READ, there is only one thing that I don't like about Solaris. See above ^.
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Hope it helps, if jlliagre's post didn't already.