On Tuesday 15 August 2006 15:43, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:46:49PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > hmmm... I don't think a sane seasoned Solaris admin would evaluate a > > Unix-like operating system for server-class work by installing its > > 'Desktop' task, perhaps?
;-) Solaris is really a bad reference to prove your Desktop claim. > A seasoned Solaris admin may very well be of the opinion that running a > Unix-like operating system on their desktop is much easier to support a > bunch of Solaris machines from, FWIW, virtual terminals are not officially supported in Solaris 8/9 for sparc and x86 (well, yes you can cheat and fight the system at your own risk), and it is no fun to type DOSish way on a single console... thus almost all installations I've ever seen have Xsun and CDE installed, no matter how server-wise they pretend to be. Sol9 comes with GNOME 2.x also ;-) > but that Solaris itself is not > particularly well suited to PC-class hardware (because it has less > drivers, or whatever). This is true, but OpenSolaris is getting better on that front. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]