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Sun Solaris 10 review

6.8

Editors' Rating

Good

9.0

Members' Rating

Spectacular

Typical price:Free

Verdict

Significant performance, availability and feature enhancements make Solaris 10 an automatic choice for existing Sun customers. But as an alternative to Linux, it doesn’t yet deliver... Read Full Review.

Pros

  • Enhanced performance and security
  • Predictive self-healing
  • X86 platform support
  • Built-in virtualisation (Solaris Containers)
  • DTrace debugging tool
  • Linux compatibility

Cons

  • Compatibility issues on x86 platforms
  • Linux compatibility, ZFS file system and other promised features not yet available

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Member Opinion

9.0

Average Member Rating

Spectacular

73 Members have reviewed this product

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Anonymous

Anonymous

Solaris 10 Rocks!

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10

Perfect


Seann Dorand

Seann Dorand

Reviewer obviously has lack of enterprise experience

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10

Perfect


Shawn Walker

Shawn Walker

A robust, stable, high performing, well documented Unix OS

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10

Perfect


Martin Neumann

Martin Neumann

The most advanced OS on the planet

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10

Perfect


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John Molloy John Molloy

Yes, but...

Wednesday 30 December 2009, 9:55 PM

2 comments
blackholesun blackholesun

Mobile Broadband on Linux, Revisited

Wednesday 30 December 2009, 7:04 PM

8 comments
blackholesun blackholesun

Attack Site!

Wednesday 30 December 2009, 6:25 PM

4 comments


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