Max Cooper wrote:
Hello people.
After discovering OpenOffice.org and doing some more browsing i discovered this
project. I'm currently using Windows and was about to migrate to Linux, which,
as far as i know and as per some peoples advice, is really friendly to
non-expert users, which of course is my case.
I was wondering if this OS may be useful for someone like me, if i would be
able to use it, and of course concerned about hard and soft compatibility.
If someone could give me some advise i would really appreciate.
Max
Obviously, that depends. But it would probably be easier to start with
commercial Solaris or possibly a derived distro of OpenSolaris like
Belenix, Schillix, Nexenta, etc. But there are other things to
consider. Do you plan on running it on a laptop? The maybe you want to
wait until Solars matures in that area. Is your hardware configuration
supported "out of the box"? (Check here:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/) If so then give it a try, it won't
cost you anything! Otherwise I suggest to get VMware and play with it
on that. See how you like the overall feel.
As for hardware compatibility, if you want 100% guaranteed support then
the most fool proof way is to go to the Sun store and buy one of their
workstations. And you can get support for the OS too.
Software compatibility depends upon what you want. Pretty much any type
of app you could want is available Solaris, just don't expect many of
consumer commercial apps. Just check out blastwave.org for some examples.
Bill
rushmores.net
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