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    Has anyone checked out... Open Solaris?

    Have another operating system up and running in VMware .. Open Solaris
    Installed very cleanly, runs, Firefox pre-installed.

    The ISO download is about 667MB (Live Version)

    Ubuntu, PC-BSD, and Solaris has the type of interfaces I am looking for.

    What OS should I install next? Seal?

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    Next OS: OS/2 or Minix :)
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    Quote Originally Posted by N1LAF View Post
    What OS should I install next? Seal?
    OS/2

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    Quote Originally Posted by KC2UGV View Post
    Next OS: OS/2 or Minix :)
    Beat me by mere seconds...
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    I would need an OS/2 disk or ISO file, I'd give it a try.

    Just installed VMware for Solaris, installer friendly and works great. I do find Solaris a little sluggish, but I wouldn't hesitate to make a partition dedicated for Solaris and multi boot it.
    To do what I am doing, you need a USB hard drive to keep baseline libraries... better yet, External SATA....

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    Quote Originally Posted by N1LAF View Post
    I would need an OS/2 disk or ISO file, I'd give it a try.

    Just installed VMware for Solaris, installer friendly and works great. I do find Solaris a little sluggish, but I wouldn't hesitate to make a partition dedicated for Solaris and multi boot it.
    To do what I am doing, you need a USB hard drive to keep baseline libraries... better yet, External SATA....
    Solaris would be a big sluggish on a VM, because it doesn't play nicely with non-Sun VM's (a la IBM's LPARs). If you really need performance from a virtualized instance of Solaris, it's better to be run it on Big Iron.

    Also, for OpenSolaris, I think there is an alternative kernel for virtual instances...
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    Downloaded Minix..
    Downloaded BeOS...

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    Minix3 hung on startup...
    BeOS works fine
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    Quote Originally Posted by N1LAF View Post
    Have another operating system up and running in VMware .. Open Solaris
    the only people who care about Open Solaris are people who grew tired of paying premium prices for sun's intel-based hardware.

    back in the day i usedta run solaris 2.4 x86. i was one of the *two* people in all of oracle who used it for anything. hopefully it's gotten much better by now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by n6hcm View Post
    the only people who care about Open Solaris are people who grew tired of paying premium prices for sun's intel-based hardware.

    back in the day i usedta run solaris 2.4 x86. i was one of the *two* people in all of oracle who used it for anything. hopefully it's gotten much better by now.
    I actually like this Open Solaris.
    Program download and setup was painless..
    Compact and reconfigurable menu system..
    Loading Open Office was a breeze. And no ribbons!

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