Hello,everyone! First time post a message in this Solaris forum.

Back to the business. I knew that Solaris 10 was out for a while for free. However, I want to try out Solaris this time around (seems too late,though) because I want some hand-on experience on Solaris System. So what do you guys think Solaris 10 is good at and disadvatanges?

I would be thankful if you would give me your advices on the above question.

Why do you think it is too late ?

My only issue with Solaris 10 is that it doesn't ustilize the full 15Gb I gave to its installation, leaving some 2Mb dead spaces before and after its own partition. That causes other systems to think I have a corrupted partition table. All the systems still work normally.

I installed it twice and have identified the dead hard disk spaces come from Solaris.

Hello,everyone!

jlliagre, I do think I am too late because it's been a while for the release of solaris 10. By the way,saikee, I hope that not "all" the computers would happen like you experienced. Maybe it just happen on some of the computer.

Anyway,guys,please give me more pros and cons of Solaris 10.Thanks.

If you think so, then try Solaris Express (a.k.a Solaris 11).

That's true, I already commented on this issue on this forum, anyway, loosing 4 megabytes on a 15 gigabyte filesystem (0.02%) is no big deal.

Why not trying by yourself ? Solaris 10 is free.

Thanks for the replies from you guys, I appreciated.

Actually, I am downloading Solaris 10. I would like to know the comment regarding the performance of Solaris 10. Because I would like to do something crazy. Install Windows XP, Slackware & Solaris. If Solaris is good, I would install it on my server (production) along with my Slackware Linux.

I would like to try out Solaris because it is famous of its stability in the industry. However,I would use Linux as my primary OS for the server.

It is performing well, especially under high load where the stability/reliability priority is kept.
That's not that much crazy, many people are doing the same kind of configuration actually.
It will be interesting to know your feedback about that.

I'm a Slackware/Solaris user.

Cons:
Install is not as quick or as intuitive as Slackware. It's not hard though.
Default shell is a bit cryptic coming from bash. Although changing your users shell to bash is very simple.
The main con I have is that the roots path= is not setup. So when your new, you have to find where the bins are that you use & add them.
It's simple to do, just confusing for the first time user.

Pros:
Really nice Gnome (JDS) desktop. Great login manager. Xorg & Xsun both installed so you can choose whichever you want. It has a great file structure layout. Package managements pretty nice. Blastwave.org is better then Linuxpackages.net IMO. Doesn't have as much available, but the packages all seem top notch.

Plus the best thing about Solaris. Excellent documentation. So much better than linux. When you google linux docs or man pages so many are outdated. Sun has some of the best websites & info of any OS I have ever used. Really makes learning allot less stressful.

First of all, thanks for your reply,nick_th_fury. It's informative to me especially you talk about the documentation. I have quite a lot experiences about setting server like (mail,especially mail-postfix) the documentation is not enough or outdated. I do hope that the documentation of Solaris would be enough for me to find information if I needed.

Thanks for all the replies from you guys.

That's for security reasons, root PATH is set to a very minimal list (/usr/sbin:/usr/bin).
Root shouldn't run implicitly anything not there anyway, furthermore, Solaris direction is to suppress most of the needs to log in as or su to root, and promote using role based access control instead.

To the cons list, the lack of some H/W drivers is still an issue, but it is improving fast.

To the pros list, I would have added Dtrace, zones and resource management. They are all very useful in both development/experimental and production environments.