Solaris 8 OS: Anyone use it yet?

[Remedy]

I was thinking of getting this OS just to toy around and learn with but don't know anyone who even uses it. Anyone?

 

[Cyph3r]

We use Solaris 8 on our Sparc machines at work both in 32 and 64 bit modes..as we support it for our boards..we have to write drivers for our customers..

I don't know of anyone using it on their home machine, but it could be something worthwhile to play with if you haven't in the past..Regards

 

[Remedy]

Yeah i think i might just take it up just to learn something new and i also have the books coming too

The Solaris Internals: Core kernal Architechure

High performance JAVA Platform Computing: Mulithreaded and Networked programming

 

[kylef]

There are a few machines running in our CS department at Duke with Solaris on x86. But the main reason they're running Solaris is for smooth integration into the large installed base of Sun Sparcstations floating around campus.

Sun does a good job keeping Java up to date on Solaris (on par with Wintel), so if you're doing Java development, it should be great.

But on all of the research machines the department generally goes with FreeBSD; it's lighter and faster and more experiment-friendly... People have more experience hacking the internals...

Kyle

 

[bubba]

I was thinking about trying it out. A friend said that Solaris x86 is the best argument for buying Sparc hardware, as it runs so slow on 32 bit machines. Dunno if this is true though.