[ale] Sorta-OT: Solaris-10 vs. openSolaris

[Tim Meanor]

You can download Solaris 10 5/08 for free from Sun.

-Tim

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:51 PM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> I'd appreciate reflections and comparisons of Solaris-10 of 01/2006 and
> the current openSolaris.
>
> Background:
>  I'm on the edge of installing some flavor of Solaris for in-house
>  learning use and want to choose a path. Box is a curb-pick Dell
>  Inspiron-2400 (single P4). Other than for my general background, I may
>  set up a few services on that box for my home network and may expose one
>  or more services to the wider net.
>
> Candidates:
>  I have a DVD installation package for Solaris-10/Jan.2006 from Sun,
>  including docs, received as user-group meeting swag, and (naturally) net
>  resources are available for openSolaris.
>
> Trade-off (as it looks to me):
>  1. The Solaris-10 set is quite complete and includes some non-free
>  components. Sun's license is appropriate for my intended personal use.
>
>  2. Jan.2006 to Sep.2008 is aeons on the software-development time line,
>  so I could have better and newer code on the openSolaris path.
>
> Your comments and comparisons?
>
> TIA.
>
>  - Mills
>
>
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