Slowaris 8 x86?????

[Guest_imported]

These last couple days I have been reading up on solaris 8 intel. I was going to purchase one for myself but would first wonder how it preforms on intel.
I've heard nicknames for it such as slowaris and some major problems it has with x86. So if someone could clue me in on what its like and what I should expect from it that would be great.
Also I'm just using solaris 8 to try out maybe get into a little development and it will be network with my small homenetwork if that helps any.

 

[sun23]

I am working on SUN Solaris,IBM AIX and HP UX for the past 5 yrs.I find Solaris as a very stable OS.Solaris 8,in my opinion is a very good UNIX OS with a lot of features.
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[Guest_imported]

I know solaris is an excellent os but my question was is it worth getting. I mean its excellent on sparc i know that but on intel does it lack so much I should just keep with linux or *bsd?

 

[rbobbitt]

I've had good experiences with Solaris on Sparc. On Intel, I've only installed it on an old, fairly slow machine (133mhz 96MB RAM) and it WAS slow (to the point of being unreasonable). In contrast, Linux Redhat 6.2 on the same machine was quite a bit faster.

I'm not sure what the deal is now, but I paid $25-30 Solaris 2.8 x86 from Sun's site. Linux, as I'm sure you know, is free or $1-3 to have it burnt on a CD. I'm sure someone could make good arguments for Solaris, but personally I Linux better because (among other things) the distributions are loaded with software and goodies, additional free software packages are all over the place, it's all open source and I really like Gnome, as opposed to Solaris' CDE (yech!).

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[Guest_imported]

I can understand it being slow on such a computer 133mhz, but mine will be faster computer but I need to know this before i drop $120 dollars on solaris 8. (its price is so high because I am canadian) and I don't really wanna drop $120 on some os that won't even work.

 

[AndyBo]

I'm sure it'll work, but just don't expect great performance. Even though Solaris is avaiable on Intel, I guess Sun see it as being a poor relation to SPARC. Code might compile on the Intel, but things are probably optimised for SPARC.

If you have a major yearning to run Solaris, I can recommend it as a decent version of Unix. Just don't expect great performance.

If you want a quick Unix on Intel, take a look at Linux of one of the *BSD releases. (I know SCO is available, and it's a native Intel Unix, but there's just so much more Linux and *BSD stuff out there...) [sig]<p> Andy Bold<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>"I've probably made most of the mistakes already, so hopefully you won't have to..." Me, most days.[/sig]

 

[Skydog]

I am running Solaris 8 on an Intel box, and have not had any major issues with speed. On the other hand, I have been using win9x and winnt4 for the past few years, so molasses might run faster. I picked solaris to learn unix on, since docs and info for Linux seems to vary by distribution.(just me thoughts)

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[Annihilannic]

Solaris 7 x86 runs comfortably on the Dual P-III 500 with 512MB of RAM under my desk, for the record. It does say that it highly recommends at least two CPUs when installing.

Annihilannic.