Don't let facts get in the way of your opinion
And you be sure to resort to insults when reason fails you. Sure, you can hunt around on the web and individually download a complete system from bits and pieces, in addition to the stuff you pointed to, you can go get Apache from somewhere, a servlet runner from somewhere else, netscape from somewhere else again, yada, yada, yada. The commercial Linuxes bundle all this stuff. Also, I believe that you don't get the "good" C compiler/linker/debugger without paying Sun some money, though I'll admit that may have changed in the year or so since I last looked.
I have the "free" Solaris x86 and yes I've installed it, along with Linux, BeOS, and several versions of windows, just to try them out. I can tell you that the Solaris x86 install was the buggiest and most troublesome of all of these, and came with the least stuff pre-packaged in easy-to-install form. Admittedly, it was two years ago that I got it, perhaps it's improved. Oh, it did come with StarAwful, which I ran screaming from after some bad experiences with the usability and compatibility vis-a-vis MS Office. Guess that's one up on Linux |
