Once again Solaris 10 (on either Sparc or X64 platforms) features a larger collection of available third party ISV applications than the competition. The numbers speak for themselves. Want freeware? Go to blastwave.org or sunfreeware.com
Why should you care?
When choosing an enterprise operating system platform, you need to be sure that you have the widest choice of workloads available to you. Add that to the fact the Solaris 10 is developed as an open source project, runs on commodity Sparc and X64 hardware and is free to download and the choice is simple.
Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 18733 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
Interestingly most of these packages can also be compiled on Solaris.
While your at it, put up a comparison against Windows Vista, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_Software_Compatibility_List
Posted by Peter on September 17, 2007 at 08:07 PM EDT #
Jim & Peter, Don't forget about blastwave.org & sunfreeware.com. Sun just needs to have Solaris realized as a legitimate desktop. Not only on par with ubuntu, but with Windows and Mac. Frankly, the desktop experience is there. Unfortunately, its just missing a few items like the ability to listen to radio broadcast in windows media player, but that is the fault of broadcast suppliers beaming in window's media format. Maybe it is time for us on the interenet to demand the delivery of media in open formats, not closed and proprietary formats that only Microsoft can make a player for it. Yes, I know there are players like mplayer, but, Sun isn't going to ship that with the codec and I have to find a way to install it and it I believe you can argue that breaks the law. I recall Bill Gates said he wish he rewrite the internet code - well, maybe he is, one media format at a time. At the end of the day, those who own the eye balls, owns the product.
Posted by Jim H on September 18, 2007 at 07:34 AM EDT #
Actually CBC Radio in Canada has the mandate to provide radio services to Canada coast to coast. They have an OGG based stream going :
http://www.cbc.ca/listen/ogg.html
Despite being a test, it seems to have been in place for quite some time. You can use xine from Blastwave to play that stream quite neatly and in fact, I have it playing out of an Ultra 2 here. Here is the command line :
/opt/csw/bin/xine --hide-video http://oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca:80/cbcr1-toronto.ogg
Posted by Dennis Clarke on December 23, 2007 at 05:06 PM EST #
We use solaris at school. Its really hard to program in. But if your programs compile they run very quickly in parallel...thats the only reason I can think of running solaris. :p
Posted by vf on May 04, 2009 at 01:01 PM EDT #
Thanks to Brian Cameron of Sun for providing this answer.....
The best way to do this is to modify the GDM Init script so that it
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will display with the login screen. If you don't launch with "&", then
the user will need to exit the dialog (perhaps by hitting a confirmation
button) before the login screen will display.
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