[Marty L Mayes]

Yes is Solaris 10 a complete operating system, and will it run on window computers, like a gateway, or hp, or other. thanks

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Yea, Solaris is a "real and complete" OS. It is a version of Unix and uses a desktop system based on Gnome, so it's going to be similar in many ways to Linux. Personally, however, I don't recommend using it. It's years behind Linux in terms of driver availability and ease of installation.

If you're looking for an alternative operating systems to Windows, I recommend looking at some of the more popular Linux distros. Ubuntu and SuSe are both very user friendly and will be fully compatible on pretty much any computer (unlike Solaris).

- Matt

[mpfeif101]

Yea, Solaris is a "real and complete" OS. It is a version of Unix and uses a desktop system based on Gnome, so it's going to be similar in many ways to Linux. Personally, however, I don't recommend using it. It's years behind Linux in terms of driver availability and ease of installation.

If you're looking for an alternative operating systems to Windows, I recommend looking at some of the more popular Linux distros. Ubuntu and SuSe are both very user friendly and will be fully compatible on pretty much any computer (unlike Solaris).

- Matt

[warriorscot]

Yes its a real OS but you can only really use it on a sun workstation it has its advantages over other OSs but it has its faults if you dont have a PC that comes with solaris then i wouldnt use solaris on it, if you are using a standard x86 system then linux is probably better for you.

[thenotch]

Yes its a real OS but you can only really use it on a sun workstation it has its advantages over other OSs but it has its faults if you dont have a PC that comes with solaris then i wouldnt use solaris on it, if you are using a standard x86 system then linux is probably better for you.

You can use it on any x86 system just as easily as Linux, it does NOT have to be a Sun system (there is an x86 version of Solaris as well as the SPARC version for Sun systems).

Solaris is NOT your best choice for a desktop system, but if you are running a server it is a very stable product.
It does have quite a learning curve, but the setup is quite easy to follow.

[Marty L Mayes]

Thanks guy's I'll do some more research, I'm not trying to replace my os, just wanting to try, on another computer.

[mpfeif101]

You can use it on any x86 system just as easily as Linux

Yes, you can use it on any x86 system, but I disagree with your assessment that you can do so just as easily as Linux. Hardware support is miles ahead on Linux than Solaris, good luck finding drivers for Solaris.

[thenotch]

You can use it on any x86 system just as easily as Linux

Yes, you can use it on any x86 system, but I disagree with your assessment that you can do so just as easily as Linux. Hardware support is miles ahead on Linux than Solaris, good luck finding drivers for Solaris.

I agree with that. My point was basically that installing Solaris is not as big of a chore as people make it out to be.