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| - | A long time ago, I started off on a (ever-lasting) quest for the best operating system and environment for my host. Being a Unix operating system fan, I soon got rid of Windows, and found myself installing a Linux. That started a long time ago and I installed several distributions: RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, and more recently Ubuntu. Globally, I liked Linux, its compatibility and the reactivity of its community, but in the end, sometimes I got the feeling Linux was getting bigger, fatter, slower and more buggy. So, I decided to go out looking for something else. A quick try with OpenBSD, but to be honest, I didn't really like it. More for servers than desktop (to my opinion). | + | A long time ago, I started off on a (ever-lasting) quest for the best operating system and environment for my host. Being a Unix operating system fan, I soon got rid of Windows, and found myself installing a Linux. That started a long time ago and I installed several distributions: RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, and more recently Ubuntu. Globally, I liked Linux, its compatibility and the reactivity of its community, but in the end, sometimes I got the feeling Linux was getting bigger, fatter, slower and more buggy. |
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| + | So, I decided to go out looking for something else. A quick try with OpenBSD, but to be honest, I didn't really like it. More for servers than desktop (to my opinion). | ||
| I ended up with Solaris 10. Not so sure it wasn't just to please my husband - a great fan of Sun - or to remind us of our old school days. I wasn't disappointed: it was *so* stable, nice 64-bit support, and enough software to get me (approximately) happy. | I ended up with Solaris 10. Not so sure it wasn't just to please my husband - a great fan of Sun - or to remind us of our old school days. I wasn't disappointed: it was *so* stable, nice 64-bit support, and enough software to get me (approximately) happy. | ||
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| But then, Christmas arrived, and I got a new wide LCD screen. I struggled for several weeks to get its resolution supported by Solaris. Updated to Solaris u6. Partially lost my configuration in the process (my fault though - not Sun's)... and finally ended up (reluctantly) installing OpenSolaris. There we are, I now run OpenSolaris, with my nice 22'' screen. | But then, Christmas arrived, and I got a new wide LCD screen. I struggled for several weeks to get its resolution supported by Solaris. Updated to Solaris u6. Partially lost my configuration in the process (my fault though - not Sun's)... and finally ended up (reluctantly) installing OpenSolaris. There we are, I now run OpenSolaris, with my nice 22'' screen. | ||
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| * my husband loves Unix, and he probably wouldn't have married me if I told him I did not like Unix ;-) | * my husband loves Unix, and he probably wouldn't have married me if I told him I did not like Unix ;-) | ||
| - | {{tag>unix, linux, openbsd, solaris, opensolaris, microsoft, windows}} | + | {{tag>unix linux openbsd solaris opensolaris microsoft windows}} |
(c) A. Apvrille - 2009