What about Solaris operating system?

[madokie]

[RoyGBiv]

1. What about it?

:-)

Solaris is a nice system from what I've seen. It's not really made for home desktop users, though.

[madokie]

2. Thanks, thats what I was wondering

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/features.jsp

[JPettus]

3. Solaris is primarily a server-side OS for corporate use

They do have a desktop version but it's seldom used and gets very little development time from Sun.

If you want to go with a *nix (Solaris is the Sun version of UNIX) operating system, there are many Linux distros that will provide you the same stability with a lot more features, since most Linux desktops are really designed to be home user friendly.

[madokie]

4. thanks, I'm trying out ubuntu and so far the only thing I really like is it is not micro$haft

I have an xp system and have nothing loading at startup except for antivirus and comparing this xp to ubuntu it is much faster in every thing I do, which is mostly just the web and I am surprised at that too.
ahh but the quest for prefection has led me down some mighty strange paths over the years.

[MyNameGoesHere]

5. Try Open Solaris

It's pretty much like all the other distros you either like it or not. I loaded a while back it got the job done what else can i say?