User:Brandent

About Solaris
Solaris is an open source programmer friendly operating system, based on the more popular Unix systems like Linux.

Solaris Express
[] - Demos for Open JFX I downloaded the JavaFX script JavaFXPad Demo first. The program was a downloader however, to the actual program which in turn failed to function. The other programs displayed the same type of problems so I gave up on trying these Demos.

Solaris Installation

I followed a guide on how to complete the installation of Solaris on a new Sun machine. The installation went smoothly with no visual problems. The actual installation takes anywhere from 30-60 minutes, but only takes about 10 minutes to set up.

Bugs

Being the developer edition, Netbeans 5.5 sometimes takes as long as 2 minutes to load when internet access in not present. This is a problem since all update settings were disabled.

Bugs in Bellenix

I was fortunate enough to experiment with not one but two Unix systems and this Solaris counterpart Bellenix had but a few problems. It takes no time at all to boot up this CD based OS, but when it initiates the lock screen after the screensaver, an error occurs that crashes the computer if the root user does not have a password set. When you press enter it brings you to a black screen where it runs the same error message many times over. When I try to set the password for root using the User and Group settings it displays an error message and does not allow me to. Instead I had to manually set it in the terminal.