Erwin's StarOffice Tango

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Mittwoch März 23, 2005

My first Solaris 10 box
Last night I installed Solaris 10 from the DVD kit that I picked up at CeBIT last week. I installed it on one of my old laptops which I normally use to watch news via video streaming. BTW, video streaming is cool! It allowed my wife and me to watch German news while we lived in the Bay Area (California). It also allowed us to get to know my wife's cousin's girlfriend/partner. She is one of the main news presenters and my wife's cousin met her the first time while we were in the US.

Anyway, since the laptop is almost my TV replacement, I was a bit afraid of trying to install Solaris 10. I did not want to ruin the existing operating system. It turned out that I was afraid for nothing. Now I have a dual-boot machine with Solaris 10 running on one partition!

Today on the train I read different Solaris 10 reviews. I have to admit, I can agree to some of the critical statements. The setup routine could be a little smoother and the desktop system driver support could be slightly better. However, with the Java Desktop System interface it just looks like my Linux box and all the necessary desktop applications are ready to use including StarOffice 7.

The different Solaris 10 reviews made me also curious about all the cool stuff in Solaris 10 like containers/zones, DTrace and the Service Management Framework. Not that I need containers for my day-to-day desktop work, but I want to understand why so many people asked for Solaris DVD's at CeBIT.

Thus, if you have some cool "getting started" documents for me, let me know! In the meantime I will do some digging on www.sun.com and docs.sun.com and take a new look at my old Solaris admin training materials.
( Mrz 23 2005, 06:46:54 PM CET ) Permalink

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