>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?
Yes. It's all fully available on low powered systems. (Even a VIA C3 CPU with 512 MB of ram works just fine, even as Sun RAY server; boot Solaris from flash too, if that's your thing) >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. Much more accessible information can be found on blogs.sun.com; many engineers write accessible how-tos about the stuff they themselves build. >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? The GNU utilities carry both a stability and compatibility risk. Nothing in Solaris proper can fix that. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
