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[Antony]

Finally, I installed Solaris 10 on my Mac (under Parallels Desktop of course since I paid for it and also paid for the Parallels 3 upgrade).

Booting up Solaris does take some time, is this common in Linux operating systems? Or was that I did not provide system resource to this Solaris Guest OS?



To be honest, I did not install Solaris myself from scratch. I downloaded the Solaris Virtual Appliances (for Parallels Desktop and Workstations).

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I shall do with Solaris? Or which particular area of Solaris I shall explore?

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[Edward]

I have never used Solaris, nor have ever seen it in action, so I would not know what direction to send you in.

If it were me, I would look at everything, but I would not change something (like a setting) if I did not know what it did first.

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[professorpty]

Finally, I installed Solaris 10 on my Mac (under Parallels Desktop of course since I paid for it and also paid for the Parallels 3 upgrade).

Booting up Solaris does take some time, is this common in Linux operating systems? Or was that I did not provide system resource to this Solaris Guest OS?

To be honest, I did not install Solaris myself from scratch. I downloaded the Solaris Virtual Appliances (for Parallels Desktop and Workstations).

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I shall do with Solaris? Or which particular area of Solaris I shall explore?

It takes up time tostart up because it's running in Parallels, which is a virtual machine, or in other words, it has to emulate an entire machine on top of the operating system you're already running.

Solaris is actually quite fast when running natively on dedicated hardware.

Solaris is not a Linux system, the Solaris kernel is descended from AT&T UNIX System V licensed by Sun, but to answer your question, Linux distributions are often much faster than Windows or Mac OS on the same hardware, an entire 32-bit Ubuntu system can boot up using only about 100 megabytes of RAM off the bat, and Xubuntu only eats about 80 megs fully booted up, Linux doesn't need especially fast hardware or gobs of RAM, which is one reason people who don't want to throw away an otherwise perfectly usable Mac or PC in a landfill and upgrade to Microsoft or Apple's newest system often choose Linux, of course that's not to say that Linux isn't powerful, it's just that it's open source nature, and the way it's designed isn't to carpet bomb the masses with a buggy pile of crap that kind of half works in order to maximize profits and push new hardware sales.

Don't know what you'd do with Solaris, it's not real user friendly, and most *NIX software is Linux software, Debian or Red Hat's package management software is a lot friendlier.

I did get a Solaris 10 disc from Sun, but it really doesn't work very well for a desktop system.

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[Antony]

It takes up time tostart up because it's running in Parallels, which is a virtual machine, or in other words, it has to emulate an entire machine on top of the operating system you're already running.

professorpty, err izanbardprince,
Parallels does not emulate an entire machine. Full Stop.

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[iJohnE]

Well, Antony, I can not tell you which areas to explore due to the fact that I have never used it. However, if all goes well with you, I may just take up an interest.

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[dlundmark]

Finally, I installed Solaris 10 on my Mac (under Parallels Desktop of course since I paid for it and also paid for the Parallels 3 upgrade).

Booting up Solaris does take some time, is this common in Linux operating systems? Or was that I did not provide system resource to this Solaris Guest OS?

To be honest, I did not install Solaris myself from scratch. I downloaded the Solaris Virtual Appliances (for Parallels Desktop and Workstations).

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I shall do with Solaris? Or which particular area of Solaris I shall explore?

It takes up time tostart up because it's running in Parallels, which is a virtual machine, or in other words, it has to emulate an entire machine on top of the operating system you're already running.

Solaris is actually quite fast when running natively on dedicated hardware.

Solaris is not a Linux system, the Solaris kernel is descended from AT&T UNIX System V licensed by Sun, but to answer your question, Linux distributions are often much faster than Windows or Mac OS on the same hardware, an entire 32-bit Ubuntu system can boot up using only about 100 megabytes of RAM off the bat, and Xubuntu only eats about 80 megs fully booted up, Linux doesn't need especially fast hardware or gobs of RAM, which is one reason people who don't want to throw away an otherwise perfectly usable Mac or PC in a landfill and upgrade to Microsoft or Apple's newest system often choose Linux, of course that's not to say that Linux isn't powerful, it's just that it's open source nature, and the way it's designed isn't to carpet bomb the masses with a buggy pile of crap that kind of half works in order to maximize profits and push new hardware sales.

Don't know what you'd do with Solaris, it's not real user friendly, and most *NIX software is Linux software, Debian or Red Hat's package management software is a lot friendlier.

I did get a Solaris 10 disc from Sun, but it really doesn't work very well for a desktop system.

Hello:
You will not be able to run Sun 10 OS very well, unless you have at least 1 gig of ram, in my experience. The system runs well on one of my generic home built machines at 900 mghz with 1.3 gig of ram. I have been running this and many other Linux systems on SCSI hard drives.... What can you do with this Operating system? Anything you can do in Windows. In my experiences with this OS, it is great and as good as any operating system I have used of the Linux versions. This is a well supported system, has many, many addon programs in nearly every venu. Games, production, and any thing else that Windows can do. Many of the Linux systems come with a downloader, some have to be installed and activated. There are many downloadable programs that will do things like burn DVD or CDroms, movies and pictures. Programming, utilities, and many office programs as well. StarOffice is default, but you can download and install OpenOffice which is also from Sun. As far as the Internet, like all Linux Oses, you can get more than one browser and other programs to do many things from and through the Internet. The Sun OS comes with a minimum of programs. What you should do is to use a downloader and then use something like the update manager to find and install the programs you want. The whole system can be edited to be what you want, as most all of the Linux versions I have used.
The Solaris 10 is one of the long lines of Sun's operating systems which are Unix-based, as are all of the Linux versions. That makes this operating system able to run many of the programs made for Linux. Solaris can support multiple processors in many environments.

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[Edward]

I have Mandriva Linux running on an 11 year old Pentium 1 system, 166 MHz CPU with 256 Mb of PC100 memory, using LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment).

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[Edward]

I recently downloaded OpenSolaris 11 and burned it to a CD to see if I could run it. It would not boot on either my Pentium/MMX or K6-2 systems, but it did boot on my ThinkPad laptop.

Unfortunately, I could get online wirelessly with OpenSolaris because the wireless settings asked for a WEP encryption key, the router uses WPA which uses a much-stronger encryption. WPA_Supplicant would have to have been installed in order to use a WPA key, but it couldn't be installed since the OS was running in memory from the LiveCD.

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