linux, eat your heart out

[rz350]

I just installed Solaris 10. It blows away any Linux Distro I've *ever* seen. Its sooo smooth and user friendly, yet at the same time, very very powerful and stable. Down with the penguin, up with the Sun!




(if you don't know what I am talking about, you probably don't care...but just to let you know, free, open source Computer operating systems. Linux being Unix like knockoff. Solaris 10 being Unix certified commercially developed, but free)

 

[couchcommander]

I'm pretty happy with my Ubuntu installations.

I've had it on my mothers laptop for the last year, only got a call from her twice. Needed a few extra minutes to set up (decss2, gmplayer), but after that it is almost more user friendly that windows. Samba just worked, as did the wireless. The package management system is great, though they do have a few old broken packages still floating around, especially for x64 architectures.

As well it's on the GF's laptop and I have an HTPC install (Myth) in my living room, and a Samba/Apache server at work which does great work in it's mixed enivronment (windows/linux workstations... yes ubuntu on them as well).  There is the standard issues with ATI drivers, but with some effort they can be made to work excellently (or you can just use nvidia based cards).

I'm running a pretty stripped down version of slack on my personal machine (but I have only a few things I really need it for), once again great.

My favourite bit is the wide range of free software availible. If you have a need for something, it's usually out there already, and very powerful at that. With a decent system, it even works great gaming.

I have a hard time justifying expenditures on windows, unix, or any other software when there is open source stuff availible that is just as functional, sometimes more. Of course, such decisions are sometimes made without my input (DAMN YOU CITRIX!).

And linux is indeed unix like, but I'd shy away from calling it a knock off.

 

[rz350]

this is free source too. I got it cause I got a used laptop for University, but didnt want to pay for a decent OS. (only had an ME disk...my desktop was preloaded with XP) so I first installed mandriva. now Im on Solaris, and I love it. Its great (lots of good Linux distros too) but I'm just finding this Solaris to be so slick and polished compared to the Linux distros. altho I highly recommend Linux to people wanting a good stable free OS

 

[couchcommander]

Suse is pretty slick if your in the mood to try another linux distro. But once again, give Ubuntu a shot, really goes a long way towards useability.

And I'm happy to hear you've found an OS that works for you. Each system has it's advantages. I personally enjoy my linux. 

 

[rz350]

Linux is great too, Iv sen SuSe and liked it. The reason I call Linux Unix knock off is cause Torvalds did not want to pay for Unix, so he wrote his own nix like. This Solaris is just so polished because its made by Sun, a huge high resource Server company, for use on their hardware. its pretty much like Linux.

I'm running DSL on my ancient Pentium I laptop its one of the few OS that runs on it.

 

[Parked4everuser]

I'd also like to vouch for Ubuntu. I have it installed on my laptop and love it. I've been frustrated with some other not-so-slick Linux distros (no name-calling or accusations in this post), but I quite like Ubuntu. As others have mentioned, useability is great, and if you want anything extra the package system will take care of that for you very easily.

My only gripes with it are the ATI drivers, as I've had a hard time getting those to play nice with my laptop. Though the ATI drivers issue isn't just Ubuntu, its more or less any Linux distro. Aside from that,  Unbuntu is great. (I also recommend Gentoo for the power users with way too much free time on their hands ).

 

[couchcommander]

My only gripes with it are the ATI drivers, as I've had a hard time getting those to play nice with my laptop. Though the ATI drivers issue isn't just Ubuntu, its more or less any Linux distro.

I ended up having to recompile my kernel with slack. At least with ubuntu it just took some time and patience.

Have you managed to get it working yet? If not, I might be able to help you along (I've ran into the same issue, again, and again, and again).

 

[DG-41]

Slowaris? Blech!

Although it could be worse; it could be AIX.

DG

 

[boots]

Nobody mentions FreeBSD?
Last time I looked into Solaris 10, the hardware support wasn't good enough yet, but I'll go try again

 

[DG-41]

Haven't you heard? *BSD is dying. Netcraft confirms it!

;D

(This is a game of "spot the geek reference")

DG

 

[rz350]

Nobody mentions FreeBSD?
Last time I looked into Solaris 10, the hardware support wasn't good enough yet, but I'll go try again

Eeew BSD

Solaris 10 has all the support I need, it runs my stock IBM a21m and it has USB support. Tho yah, if you wanted to use lots of external hardware, it might be a problem, but i have my XP Box for that.