Solaris 10 Success Story. 3669
snip ravings of Mike Cox
Nonsense. It's a possible information leak in all hyperthreading cpus, on any operating system, windos...
Mike, Solaris 10 might be a success, but on the Sparc platform, not x86.
I myself downloaded Solaris 10 DVD iso only last week. I attempted first to install it on my run of the mill clone machine. It failed to detect my NIC. Ok, onto another machine, this time an IBM thinkpad. It failed to boot. Next, because I was now desperate to get this work somewhere, because of the amount of time I had spent downloading it, I took one of the machines at work, an HP DX2000. It failed to detect the NIC.
I admit that I never expected the clone machine to work properly, but the Thinkpad and HP box has fairly high spec hardware and is not what I would consider cheap poo.
Sun's failure to support x86 hardware has been getting worse since Solaris 7. Each release appears to drop support for more hardware each time.
As far as I am concerned, this failure renders Solaris 10 totally useless for the x86. And its no good crying out that we should all go out and buy Sun hardware, because that is just not going to happen.
I download on a regular basis various different Linux distros, because I like to try them out. 9 times out of 10 I can make them boot, and recognise all my hardware. This is because the amount of effort that goes in to produce Linux as a quality operating system.
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