Some of our articles here on MakeUseOf require the use of your own web server. Although the easiest way to go about finding web space is to purchase hosting The. An interesting use of Solaris 8 on a PC laptop is for use with the JumpStart technology. It has never been so easy to install, re-install, or restore a server before. As I am as a contractor, I am more on the road than in my own office, so I need a laptop, and preferably with Solaris installed, as I am focusing on. He can very much install VirtualBox on Windows then install Solaris as a VirtualBox guest. This would be the simpler and safer solution. Open indiana is base in OpenSolaris and you can installed in any PC. You dont need a sparc computer for it. I have been pretty disappointed in the new operating system distros I have been trying out recently. In the last three to six months there has been: • A horrible install of a new Mac where the Expose feature caused windows to run away when I tried to click on controls near the edges of windows. It was like some kind of demented joke or game. (The user, who was previously a dedicated PC user, now loves the Mac and thinks it is much simpler.) • Today I tried twice to install the new service pack for MS Vista, only to have the install fail with no useful message. • An attempt to install a mainstream Linux on my new PC failed when it could not detect the keyboard. I had to get the new box because another install of a newer Linux from another distro was disastrous for performance on my quite old box. • I got too bored to continue with another mainstream Linux install, where the DVD instructed me to first burn the image to a bootable CD. So instead I have installed a recent Solaris Developer, from the DVD of some Linux magazine in the newsagent. This is one of the easiest installs I have had. (I could only install onto a partition on the main disk, install onto a partition on the secondary disk failed with a bogus message about user accounts. No biggie.) The system boots up, SAMBA works fine and detects most things I want to detect. (It is interesting that it only detected one printer on our network, however Vista only detects the other one, so that is not so bad.) It has Firefox and Thunderbird, which are what I'd use anywhere, and StarOffice, which is good enough for now; I cannot really use it or OpenOffice for making presentations until Impress gets tables in v3.0. It comes with Java installed, and Netbeans, though I'll be downloading Eclipse for compatibility with the workgroup here.
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