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So Sun made Solaris free on x86 and I thought I would try it out. Big mistake, it sucks! First I had to swap parts until I finally gave up on one of my computers I thought I would try it on and I thought it would work on my other one. The first one I wanted to reinstall anyway but the other one had a partition taking up half the hard drive. I could not get Solaris to not use the whole disk, and when I thought I had it, it overwrite my Gentoo partition on the computer. I screamed for like half an hour, argh. Then I tried getting into the computer with a Knoppix CD and trying to resurrect the filesystem, but it was a goner it overwrite the superblock and everything so I was screwed. I lost a bunch of my files including everything I've written so far trying to learn Python.
Well, I figured now that I've destroyed all my precious data I'd try to get something out of it. So I kept going, and this time it actually installed which is good. But I could not get X Windows going. And my network card was not supported either. I wanted to get a bunch of data onto it. So I hook a CD drive up but it doesn't see it. So I made a hard drive UFS on my OpenBSD router then copied the files I wanted over to it then put the hard drive in and it doesn't see it. I can't figure out why, check the cables over and over, test the drive in other computers, argh. All the hardware is good, it must be this damned software!
Turns out the Solaris devfs is CRAPPY. It doesn't scan devices each boot, you have to TELL it to scan devices by chreating a file. How dumb is that. It means to add any hardware you MUST reboot. Wanna plug your digital camera in or USB drive? Gotta reboot. Linux is SOOO much better than that, you can plug in USB HOT and it will work. Plus it just makes it easier when you mess around with hardware a lot like move drives and stuff that you don't have to tell the computer to rescan. Now if it were for speed I would understand, but Solaris boots like 20 times slower than Linux.
I heard Solaris is good on Sun processors, but on x86 stay away, unless you want it to destroy all your data and not even support any hardware, or be able to run X Windows.
Well, I figured now that I've destroyed all my precious data I'd try to get something out of it. So I kept going, and this time it actually installed which is good. But I could not get X Windows going. And my network card was not supported either. I wanted to get a bunch of data onto it. So I hook a CD drive up but it doesn't see it. So I made a hard drive UFS on my OpenBSD router then copied the files I wanted over to it then put the hard drive in and it doesn't see it. I can't figure out why, check the cables over and over, test the drive in other computers, argh. All the hardware is good, it must be this damned software!
Turns out the Solaris devfs is CRAPPY. It doesn't scan devices each boot, you have to TELL it to scan devices by chreating a file. How dumb is that. It means to add any hardware you MUST reboot. Wanna plug your digital camera in or USB drive? Gotta reboot. Linux is SOOO much better than that, you can plug in USB HOT and it will work. Plus it just makes it easier when you mess around with hardware a lot like move drives and stuff that you don't have to tell the computer to rescan. Now if it were for speed I would understand, but Solaris boots like 20 times slower than Linux.
I heard Solaris is good on Sun processors, but on x86 stay away, unless you want it to destroy all your data and not even support any hardware, or be able to run X Windows.
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