Solaris 10 OS

[Cyberbabe]

Hi

I'm just wondering has any body here tried Solaris ?, i have not my self but i would be interested if someone is using or has used it. The download site "it says free" Sun Microsystems

[Alan]

I have never heard of it, it would be interesting, if anybody has tried it, to know how it works.

[Cyberbabe]

I would love to try it "might ask my brother if he has a HDD i can have" because i don't want to risk my Seagate, i have tried Linux Red Hat but found a lot of apps would not work with it, some day when i can afford it i will buy Vista and run as dual boot with XP

[Alan]

Well if you want Vista, look in the How To section on trial periods

[Cyberbabe]

I found and read Microsoft allows bypass of Vista activation ? i thourght all trials were over ?

[Alan]

If you know anybody with a copy of Vista then you can install it, the way to activate the trial period is to install it WITHOUT entering any serial number. Windows will automatically assign a temporary number. Before I bought it, I tried it out using my son's copy. Worked like a charm! I then bought a cheap 80gig hard drive which enabled me to buy Windows Vista OEM version, which was a hell of a lot cheaper than the upgrade version.

[Cyberbabe]

No i dont, maybe i can nag my brother to buy it

[Rob]

If you want to try a different version of Linux/Unix, give Ubuntu a try. It is a very user friendly version that I ran on my laptop for a while, but started having problems with the wireless network connection so went back to windows. I believe that have that corrected now so I might try again.

I believe they also have a version that will boot from a CD so that you can see it without having to affect your current operating system or data. It is a bit slower that way, but worth a look.

[Cyberbabe]

Hi Rob

Yes i did run Susie Linux from a live disk (ISO Burn), I have heard of Ubuntu but never tried it as its a Linux based OS it should install with the Linux boot loader, think they call it Grub now, thank you for the link .