As mentioned in this post, I am currently doing my masters thesis. I just started to implement a few components and as you've probably experienced in your own projects, it is very easy to drift off into other projects when you're not 100% motivated. This drift led me to the conclusion that I suddenly absolutely needed an SVN (Subversion) server for my code ;-)
(I will be doing a lot of network communication, so this "drift" is actually fairly justified unlike most drifts)

There are two ways to do it: Ask the university to set one up for you or DIY. Being a geek -> the DIY. So I spent the entire day yesterday installing Solaris and setting up the SVN server to be used to share code between the desktop and my MacBook through my WLAN. And it works perfect!

So why is this blog-worthy? Well, as the members of my OSUG know, I have basically no experience with Solaris! But I still managed to get this server up and running without any real problems. This really amazed me: No *nix experience at all and I was still able to get the SVN server up and running and access it through my network. I guess my point is that even though your experience with Solaris is very limited, the resources online (and the bundle that comes with Solaris!) makes it much easier to set up such things than you'd expect.

Bottom line: Just go for it! I thought I'd be in way over my head (I probably was a few times too, but I didn't notice it) but if I can do it, so can you :-)