Epinions Recent Reviews for Sun Solaris

Sun Solaris: Solaris 8- the best gets better

Tue, 17 Apr 2001 10:53:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author smijolovic - If you thought 7 was great, you might want to spend the $80 bucks it takes to get to this level.

As a Systems Administrator, I had been exposed briefly to Unix. I had played with Linux but had no SUN exposure at all. However, a change of...

Sun Solaris: Why did Sun even bothered?

Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:42:01 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author hhsiung - I have worked with Solaris for Sparc as well as its poor cousin Solaris for Intel. For reviews of Solaris for Sparc, please see other reviews. This review focuses on my recent experience with Solaris for Intel.

After considerable hassle, I...

Sun Solaris: Sun Solaris 8 the next release from Sun

Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:18:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jcgrove - I have been using SunOS (Solaris) since SunOS 4.1.1. This latest edition of Sun's UNIX Operating system runs on Intel and Sparc. I currently have the Intel and Sparc running and in production. The Sparc version was easy to install and was up and running...

Sun Solaris: Solaris 8

Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:43:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author esherril - Solaris 8 is the newest release (as of March 13, 2000) from Sun of the "Solaris Operating Environment". It differs from the previous Solaris releases in many ways, both under the hood and on paper. Sun has released "SunOS 5.8" (yep,...

Sun Solaris: Highly Reliable

Sun, 2 Jul 2000 21:13:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author vennerl - I have been using Unix since 1984. I started on a Dec PDP-11 (with all those nice flashy lights!) and have use DEC equipment, Sun, HP, Linux, FreeBSD, and others.

Solaris 2.6 with recommended patches and Solaris 2.7 with recommended patches...

Sun Solaris: The Definitive Enterprise UNIX Operating System

Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:20:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cnladd - INTRODUCTION

As an experienced, professional systems administrator, I've worked on a number of different operating systems. Over the years, I've had the chance to work with the majority of UNIX-based systems, as well as the various...

Sun Solaris: Solaris rules, mostly.

Fri, 14 Apr 2000 22:17:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mfrye - I am currently a Unix project manager at a very large data center. 95% of the servers we run (about 150) are Enterprise level (E6500, etc) and running Solaris. We also have a few AIX servers and about 10 Irix servers in our Unix environment, and...

Sun Solaris: One of the best UNIX flavors.

Tue, 14 Mar 2000 03:41:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dbirchall - As far as Solaris goes, I sometimes feel like the people who knew Marilyn Monroe back when she was just Norma Jean. My experience with SunOS dates back to 1990, as does my experience with Interactive UNIX/386i, which became Solaris/x86 after Sun...

Sun Solaris: The sun never sets over Sun

Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:08:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tarthurs - Sun's Solaris 7 (2.7) is one of the most stable operating systems I've had the pleasure of working with in more than 25 years of working in the computer field. I've been the system administrator on systems that will work for months at a time without a...

Sun Solaris: Cool System

Thu, 16 Dec 1999 04:21:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author aug0799 - I am a configuration manager for a company in Irivine. We are a CTI company transfering over to an Internet company. Our old product is running under AIX, Sun Solaris, ATT, Risc6000, and windows NT. We are using a program called Nutcracker to give us a...

Sun Solaris: Solaris 7

Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:59:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author privong - I recently ordered and received the latest version of Solaris 7 from www.sun.com. I installed it on my P166 with 48MB RAM and a 2GB HD. The desktop version (the one from www.sun.com) will run well on most desktop systems.

I found Solaris to be...

Sun Solaris: Unix With a capital "S"

Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:44:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author clocks - Sun Solaris. TO quote shakespear: "What is in a name?", Solaris by any other name is still unix. ALbeit with some major differences. This particular OS is amde to work only on large, enterprise servers. Its got a heck of a lot more...

Sun Solaris: Solaris, a trusted name in the industry

Sat, 27 Nov 1999 02:28:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author rackgoku - In the fast paced and demanding world today, we have a global infrastructure we like to call the internet. I'm a System Administrator at my high school, and we test all different operating system daily. What our department has found is that Unix is much...

Sun Solaris: Solaris 7

Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:41:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author pheh - After a dozen or so meetings with Sun (http://www.sun.com) and Dell (http://www.dell.com), I've walked away feeling confident that Sun is finally taking its x86 market seriously. They have seen what Linux did and they want in on the action. Unlike...

Sun Solaris: Solaris. Yet another Greek God.

Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:21:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author O3M - If you ever were a [computer] science student and used a UNIX machine at school, there is a good chance that it was Solaris, or at least its parent SunOS. SUN's UNIX-like operating system has been on the market for as long as I can recall plus much...