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Originally Posted by chambece
Just put suse on my new desktop, but now perhaps wishing I'd put on solaris, as I use and older version of that at work....
Whats it like on a PC? I assume it doesn't use CDE as that isn't OpenSource, is it? likewise X11 and stuff...
Any chance of a couple of screen shots?
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depending on the verison of solaris, you will either get CDE (older versions) or Gnome (newer Versions).
X11 is there - Solaris is not an "Open Source" Product
yet, it is SUNs software that we choose to not charge for
I run it on a laptop, and it is pretty good...
You can get Nvidia drivers and things like FireFox and Thunderbird Pre-compiled for Solaris as well.
you can download Solaris 10 for free from :
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp
HTH
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Even once the Full open Source project is complete, there will still be a "commercial" version of solaris, based on the Opensource, but with additional software that we cannot opensource for whatever reason (mainly T/P stuff that we are not allowed to release), and that will still be free to download.
The current way of looking at it is that Solaris is free, if you want support, then you have to pay for it.