My thanks to everyone for their replies - this has been an instructive discussion.
More questions: 1. What are the resource requirements for all this wonderful Solaris 10 software to work and perform reasonably well? Is it all available for x86 systems? Does it require a 64-bit dual or quad processor system, 4 GB of RAM and a 200 GB HDD? Or would it all work on a 1.8 GHz Intel Celeron single processor system with 512 MB of RAM? E.g. is the power of the zones technology fully available on such a low-powered desktop system? 2. And what about documentation? Are good tutorials available for Solaris newbies covering the unique aspects of Solaris 10, or do you have to be a long time, seasoned Solaris sys admin to catch on to these Solaris esoterica? I found the Sun Solaris 10 User's Guides and Sys Admin Guides to be pretty dense on these subjects. 3. So far the discussion has only been about Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris. What about new distros such as Nexenta and BeleniX that retain only the Solaris kernel and core libraries? Pure Solaris is renowned for its stability; part of the reason presumably is the fact that Sun Q/A applies to every single aspect of the entire OS. Does this quality and stability necessarily carry over into a hybrid OS with Solaris kernel and GNU utilities, applications, etc.? Potentially such an OS could be incredibly buggy and unstable, completely negating the advantages of a very stable Solaris kernel, couldn't it? Can such a hybrid indeed be made as stable as Solaris itself? Robert _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
