Thank you for your precious suggestions. May I know what's your opinion in how difficult to install a full desktop (GNOME) on solaris compare installing them on gentoo? Do I need to take many steps and expect many package conflicts (like I experienced with RedHat several years ago)?The counterpart is the package and update(patching) system of solaris which is very unintuitive. You may want to check www.blastwave.org which provides you with free binary packages of opensource projects.
Well, I'd suggest going to www.sun.com/software/solaris and learning more about the features.
GNOME is now the standard Solaris desktop, and is developed and supported by Sun. It might not be the latest bleeding edge version but it's there. Keep in mind that it isn't likely to be lighting-fast on most older Sparc hardware.
FWIW, GNOME is standard on Redhat (and its clones) as well. You don't have to do anything if you're happy with the provided packages. Beyond that you're on your own and GNOME can still challenging to build from scratch, no matter what platform.
I think I will wait until solaris go OSS, for it's stupid to buy anything that is almost OSS.
It's largely irrelevant snce you can download and use Solaris 10 for free (unless you have a large SMP system like an E10k...). There are additional licensed products like Sun's compiler suite; however you can use gcc (included).
Besides, is the 'working flash implementation' the product of macromedia?
Yes, as far as I know.
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