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While I have been tinkering over the past few weeks with many things I have found myself installing Solaris on Intel based machines and I find this article timely as I have been struggling with the install process and the lack of flexibility in some places and the vagueness of the options. Also I have found that Solaris does not like to configure Ethernet hardware no matter how generic or supported it is.

I do hope that Solaris puts a bit of time into the installation process and the Jumpstart tools to make them easier to set up and to manage. They are both very old and tired and need a bit of work to make them easier to use. While Jumpstart is a very cool tool it takes a few hours if not days to get right and it should be a matter of minutes, no more than an hour. So while Solaris 10 is the best Sun has to offer I still think compaired to Linux, i5/OS and Windows they have a long way to go in the usability part of the OS. It’s just not as polished as it could be, and after 15 years and lord know how many developers at Sun you would think they would have done this already.

To bad more Enterprise Application that require UNIX are not MacOSX ready!