SUN BLADE 2500 - BOOTING UP

[gsdagent]

It has Windows-like desktop I see...

[lastmiles]

This is the "red" model. Lame. It was crippleware. You need a Silver model.

[ssiso8]

this is so ugly I wonder who would pay for something like that..

[A135S4656]

Can Solaris run on a live cd?.... and would I be able to dual boot it with Ubuntu and Windows 7?

[cpghost]

@A135S4656, yes there's a live CD for Solaris 11 Express (x86 only), and there's also a live CD for OpenIndiana (the community open source Solaris successor of OpenSolaris). Both run like a charm.

[cheeches]

u didt just login as root did you lmao

[jkarpinski857]

beautiful machine... i love Sun Microsystems

[MrToad321]

what a exact windows duplicate

i know ima get a lot of thumbs down for this comment:P

[semco72057]

Solaris is definitely not Linux and you learn that quickly if you use both OS'. Linux made it easier for people who work on Unix to take their work home with them, then bring it back to the job and run it in Unix machines. Unix is probably the most difficult OS to learn also, but stable.

[theseriousaccount]

@JokeEmperor No. Solaris is a UNIX system, UNIX has been around since 1969. The Linux we know today was created in 1991 and later combined with the GNU system to make a complete replacement of the UNIX os. (GNU stands for "GNU's Not UNIX"). the GNU/Linux system is a UNIX clone, and thereforce the two systems are similar in operation and in many cases also compatible.

[Dn1THs]

Not only noisy, but damn hot... we have 6 Sun blade 2500 and 3 blade 2000 in the office, and we don't really need to turn the heater on, although it's like -8°C outside... But they are really faster and more stable (for CAD and CAE) than many Windows workstations out there

[poussin78640]

It sounds a bit noisy, don't ?

[watef3]

Lets get this straight...

Solaris is UNIX

but UNIX is not Linux

so Linux is not Solaris

get it?..

Linux is the brand new OS kernel originally written by torvalds and enhanced by worldwide community. However Linux does have the UNIX-like look and feel and some ppl confused with the look and started to assume linux is UNIX. They may look the same but they aren't the same.

[ajboomboom5]

so can you run mac programs on it since they both have the same type of kernel?

[bamdadkhan]

@watef3 technically, it's unix.. it's not a 'certified' unix (like os x, solaris, hp-ux etc.), nor is it a 'genetic' unix (like *bsd), but it's a 'functional' unix. even dennis ritchie said so.. :)

[watef3]

@bamdadkhan actually it is UNIX which have look and feel of Linux.

[leonidas512]

@watef3 , What kind of dumb shit is that, Pepsi COla and Coca cola are both Cola, Linux and Solaris are both Unix flavours (System V).

[AORCrazy]

@watef3 Don't talk if you don''t know... Linux is POSIX standard operating system so it fits into one of the branches of UNIX tree. I'm sick of people trying to separate linux from unix. Get your statements straight.

[watef3]

@AORCrazy Linux kernel is different from UNIX kernel.

[AORCrazy]

@watef3 Yes, and the difference is Linux kernel's modularity but, the rest of the OS is Windows like? Come on...

[sandeshpaudel]

its a crap

[SpectruimVideos]

Do you know Linux? Well all this is, is an operating system distrbution of Linux. Not much special for Linux users.

[garskoci]

SpectruimVideos - You don't know much about operating systems, do you?

[garskoci]

SpectruimVideos - In regards to your message that you sent. I guess that you're well aware that SunOS isn't a distribution of Linux.... and in all reality are very different from each other. But, by running a quad-boot desktop, you would know that.

[garskoci]

Actually, no. Solaris 10 uses GDE or Sun's Java Desktop for its desktop. GDE is not Linux. Linux is a kernel. Linux uses multiple desktops. Such as GDE , KDE, ICE etc. That's all they are.... desktops. They sit on top of the OS.

BTW, Solaris is not Linux. It's way beyond Linux. It may "look" the same because of the desktop or the shell that's being used. But, it's not Linux. If you think it is, study both kernels. Learn how both handle devices. Solaris is not Linux.

[gamealcohol]

So? it comes from unix like linux,still BSD is better than both.

[poussin78640]

Solaris is not Linux

[izlude2]

aaah... good'ol sparky. i miss you ibm :(

[adacosta38]

Man, you must feel like you got robbed. You actually paid thousands to play Mahjong titans, when you could have bought a $129 upgrade for Vista and get all you need.

[MaciekzGdanska]

Well... not everyone needs viruses ;-)

[izlude2]

windows has viruses, solaris (being a server for databases etc...) has hacker problems ;)

[dbalexamiga]

Also this reminds me of logging into our UNIX servers and running "gnome-session"...

:-D

They run Solaris 10 too, but I don't see any advantage over Linux/BSD at the moment, I suppose stuff like ZFS is nice, but not something I would notice as a normal user.

[74fordcourier]

Well, that doent resemble windows at all now does it?

[TheYouuTubeRipper]

And when you start to look under the hood, that's when it really accelerates leaving Windows for dead! There's really no comparison. The only similarity the 2 have is they're both operating systems - just like Datsun 180Bs and lamborghini countachs are both cars but I know which one I'd rather drive :)

[ministryofp4in]

The Datsun?

i mean countachs have some serouis problems too XD

[bphendri]

Naw. No Blue Screen Of Death, Virus's, or Spyware.

[djshadowing]

Very nice system :)

[zeppo20]

Looks like windows.

[c3dr1cb]

hummmm

[thetech250]

well it actually looks like a mixture of linux and windows 2000, with the booting speed of windows vista home basic. lol

[mike4ty4]

Looks like Sun has discontinued all their SPARC Workstations now... SPARC now can only be found in hyper-expensive servers that probably wouldn't be useful as a desktop system (no decent GFX and all).

[dbalexamiga]

What a shame... looks like PPC is going the same way (as a workstation CPU)... :(

[marshalauth]

I had my x-rays done on one of theses machines. I looked to see what computer they were using and it surprised me. I told my mom and she thought I was "Observant" that means she did not care.

[TheYouuTubeRipper]

Almost as fast as my Ultra5... lol.

[austinramsay]

my ultra5 is faster too. lol

[jg2]

I have never seen a Solaris machine in the flesh. I have Windows XP, Mac OS X Leopard, and Ubuntu Linux.

I wouldn't mind trying it, and seeing more video's of Solaris on youtube, but there isn't many.

[eqspec76]

Took about 1 min 30 sec to reach login screen. It takes my P3 667mhz pc 35 sec to boot Windows and 45 secs to boot Linux.

[MisterLard]

It takes my Amiga 1200 4 seconds to get to the workbench (desktop) Spluuuur

[eqspec76]

That's pretty damn fast dude.

[mjauthen]

What do you use the Server for?

[Sebastian667]

Just another rip off of windows

[slayersdeath]

lol another rip off get some facts dipshit

[wisam91]

i have windows vista & xp and mac leopard for intle and sun Solaris 10 and Linux mandreva 2008 ppw

all in one pc..

[larsalan]

so you don't have a sparc processor, right

[larsalan]

at: wisam91

sry I missed

[wisam91]

nop..i've intel quad core processor on a PCI EXPRESS2 motherboard..

with 2TB HDD & 4GB of ram & the price was 2600$

and i've added windows server 2008 and FreeBSD7.0 to my collection..

im not that rich but i won the yearly electrical project competition in my country and the give me 5K!

[larsalan]

you are from Palistine?

congrats on your winning.

I am in university in the US. I do not know that much about tech but really want to build a sparc t server and get into some cool stuff.

// also need 2tb hdd sata :)

[pimpinpenz]

pretty nice computer you got there how much was it??

[mike4ty4]

"pretty nice computer you got there how much was it??"

I saw some on Ebay for $1400-$2900.

[pimpinpenz]

yeah thats not too bad but i got a alien ware laptop alreADy but i was wondering if you can sen dme th url were you van downlaod this or if any one could??????

[mike4ty4]

"...can sen dme th url were you van downlaod this or if any one could??????"

To download what, exactly?

[curemymind]

since u've put this os on ur box and before i go play with it cuz its quite a download... what does this os run programs on install... is it unix based os? and runs all the programs though the counsel... how is finding drivers for this os compare to other os's? and well gezzz it looks really good tho is it going to be like Mac and i cant hack or do anything with it how good is it manipulating files on that os..?

[dms4453]

Can you get solaris if the user has windows

[TheYouuTubeRipper]

1 of 2

Your question doesn't make sense. Solaris is an Operating System just as Windows is (only heaps better). You don't run Solaris like a program in Windows. You either boot into Windows or you boot into Solaris.

[TheYouuTubeRipper]

2of 2

What you meant to ask is, 'can you run Solaris on a machine that normally runs Windows' and the answer is yes. Sun make an x86 version of Solaris and you can also get Solaris Express which runs on x86 machines, in fact, I'm using it right now. I installed it on this laptop ages ago and it's rock solid stable.

[ssorel]

You should always run solaris, never windows. As it sucks. AKA winblowz. Solaris can also be run as a fileserver for Windoze networks. I believe that software was/is called Solstice... But nowadays everyone uses the free samba software for that.