[[C|-|E]] wrote:Well, honestly I do not know what to choose. Do you have any opinion or suggestion on this?
About Solaris .... We had an elderly IBM server that needed an OS. I made live CD's for all the systems I was interested in using. Solaris automatically found ALL the memory and ALL the cpu's where none of the others did, so I went that way. At the time Open Solaris was the buzz but I couldn't use it because of no Adaptec drivers. Yes, I could have fought it and got them installed but it was easier to go with Real (tm) Solaris.
Working with Solaris was like swimming in the supernatant removal tank down at the local wastewater treatment facility, but once it got running it didn't even hiccup for three years. Then the air conditioning failed over the weekend and the hardware fried. Not Solaris' fault.
btw, Solaris apps displayed quite nicely on an Irix computer (Fuel).
Fast forward to replacement time. Solaris did well for three years, let's stick to the proven peanut butter. No more Intel hardware, no more Honkin' Big Boxes, just a little V100 server. Doesn't even have SCSI. Downloading Solaris turned into something of a problem, at least from China, so I just bought it locally for three bucks. Wasn't looking forward to setup since that part was pretty miserable last time. But this time, due to hardware constraints and a different set of goals, I went for the bare minimum install. No graphical user interface at all.
What a different animal ! Without that three-way mess that Sun called a desktop, Solaris is very nice. Straightforward to install and maintain and runs well. ZFS is super (altho kind of pointless with a V100.) Performance on even an old Sparc processor is good.
My experience is, if you don't use their stinking awful ghastly terrible disgusting useless desktop, Solaris is very good. I'm happy that I got through the Great Ellison Firewall and put up with the installation peculiarities (DON'T let the install program partition your disks ! Who ever thought that ridiculous setup was the way to go ? Jeeze.) It's working quite well now and the Sun web server is superior to Apache. NFS, big bubbles no troubles. Users, groups, maintaining everything from a command line, straightforward and simple and capable (prstat, much nicer than top, etc etc)
Mikey likes it, although if you are a Linux or Windows user, your mileage may vary.