Sun Solaris 10

[Mayfriday0529]

Anyone use Sun Solaris 10?
Can anyone recommend a PCI-E video card that is current and also a DVD-RW burner?

 

[Kappo]

To be honest, Ive had a hard time finding hardware that isnt compatible with it. Every Dell system I have used works fine for the most part off the install, and even my ulta-non-compatible v2000 laptop worked out of the box excluding the wireless.

Solaris seems to like Nvidia better than ATI, but I would stick with an Intel Vid card since you wont be needing tons of graphics processing anyhow

 

[fartbag]

That is strange... Sun uses ATI cards in its own hardware.

 

[drag]

To get 3d acceleration for most stuff you have to go out and buy drivers for it. Same thign with a lot of other stuf, but that's not a issue as people tend to use it for server stuff.

Sun maintains a hardware compatability list aviable at their website.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/

 

[thesix]

Solairs 10 has native Nvidia driver. Go for it.
Although only Quadro FX/NVS series are "offically supported", the driver works with most (if not all) Nvida 2D/3D cards.

As for DVD-RW burner, given that the author of CDrecord even has his own OpenSolaris distribution, one can expect DVD drive support on Solaris is second to none (among *nix)