Solaris is stable and that is about it.  I have played with it on PCs, but I have worked with it on Sun hardware for over eight years.  Sun hardware is great, anything you put on it usually runs good.  I have OpenBSD on a sparc5 that runs ten times better than solaris does on the box.  The little 70mhz 32MB ram box is actually usable with BSD and very painful with solaris 8.  I also have a Ultra II (dual 300mhz 512MB ram) that I run redhat on and it seems a little faster than solaris, OpenBSD won't run on Ultra Sparcs.  I have Solaris 2.51, 2.6, 2.7, and 8 for sparc if anyone wants a copy.

PS - Has anyone used Linux on and SGI?  I have an Indy (133mhz 128MB ram) and I can't find my Irix 6.2 CD (it is here somewhere) so I am thinking about putting Linux on it.

Dusty

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> I've always wanted to play around with Solaris for x86, but the general 
> impression I receive is that Solaris just isn't all that great without 
> Sun's kick-butt hardware.  Let us know how it compares to to the various 
> unices, will you?
> 
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> 
> Steve Anderson wrote:
> 
> > Recently, I downloaded the Solaris 8 CDs from Sun. I burned the first CD
> > which is basically just the WebStart CD. I was able to boot the first
> > CD, but then you need the 2nd CD for the actual install. I was unable to
> > successfully burn the 2nd CD under Linux or M$. Has anyone successfully
> > burned the 2nd ISO image? I would rather fork over the cost of a plate
> > lunch to someone for the 2nd CD instead of paying $75 for Sun to mail me
> > the set of Solaris 8 CDs.
> > 
> > Steve Anderson
> > 
> 
> 
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