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Serverwatch give Solaris 10 (Beta 72) four stars out of five

Serverwatch put up a brief summary of their review of Solaris Express.

Looks like did pretty well overall, and perhaps would have done better if not for the reviewers belief that you could not install it with other Operating Systems.

Version10 (Beta 72)
DateJan 05, 2005
Rating
(out of 5)
What's
New?		 64-bit AMD processor support, x86
processor support, containers, DTrace, and
process rights management
DescriptionSun's industrial-strength Unix for the Sun
SPARC platform
Downloadhttp://www.sun.com/software/so...
Pricing
Details		Product is free, but support must be
purchased
CompanySun Microsystems
Homepagehttp://wwws.sun.com/software/s...

I'm not quite sure about why that last link points to the trusted Solaris homepage, but Oh well. The description looks like it may have been a cut and paste as well as the article discusses x86 and opteron.

Posted at 04:23PM Jan 10, 2005 by Alan Hargreaves in Solaris Express  |  Comments[1]