Solaris 10 or 11 for a 2 year old desktop?

[Fritz Wuehler]

I have Solaris 10 on an Intel desktop and I'm happy with it. I haven't tried
11 since it wouldn't install on this box. I have another desktop box with 2G
of RAM. Is 11 good enough now or is 10 still more stable? I plan to use it
as a general desktop/development/web surfing box. I'm happy with S10, just
don't know if 11 is good or if it needs a sysadmin with a support contract
to configure it.

[Ian Collins]

Solaris 11 or OpenIndiana are way better than Solaris 10 for a general
desktop.

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Ian Collins

[Fritz Wuehler]

Thanks. Solaris 11 it is then!

Cheers!

[YTC#1]

I'd have to disagree.

Since Oracle took over, Solaris has lost a lot of desktop focus.

I run S11 on an AMD desktop and an Intel laptop. The desktop fares much
better.

The graphics on the laptop (Intel) have become poor, and until I played
with the xorg settings I could not use an external monitor. And
currently I can only get 800x600 on that (its a 1260 external).

With S11 you have to be prepared for a mineralised GZ, and then add the
slim-install, depending on which CD you built from.

Then you should set up a repo in a zone to aid patching and further builds.

The current S11 model is mineralised GZ and everything else in zones.
This (IMO) does not sit well with desktops and laptops.

I will however persevere as I love Solaris, and it is my bread and butter.


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