Re: Is Solaris 10 a good home os?

Miroslav Zubcic wrote:
Rich Teer wrote:

GIven that you're familiar with a UNIX-like OS, yes I'd say SOlaris 10
is a good choice for a home user (though SOlaris Express would be a better
one). I'm typing this from my home Solaris box, and my non-techie wife
is sitting next to me checking her email and surfing the web on her Solaris
box.

Ehm, apropos Solaris Express and OpenSolaris: what in case someone likes
to patch system with so critical security patches, annoying bugs ...?
I'm using Solaris 10 11/6 because it has regular patches. I do not like
idea of reinstalling whole OS every couple of weeks. :-\

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/howtoguides/liveupgradehowto.jsp

It will be good thing if development versions of Solaris has patches.
Consider Red Hat/Fedora case: Fedora is esentially development version
od RHEL, but it still has software updates, so one can use it as desktop
without risking much.

We'll have to wait and see what Murdock will do about this...
.

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