First Impressions Sometimes Fails Us

A few posts ago, I complained about how much fun it was to try Solaris for the first time, especially with VMWare (here and here). In the mean time, I had time to try a complete Solaris installation and I must say it is not all that bad, except that it has this very distinctive “Linux from 5 years ago” feel. The feel I had when I first tried to switch to Linux for my primary OS, the feel I had using Red Hat 3 and (the then) Mandrake 10 distributions. The feel that there was something to be done with this environment, but also that there is much that remains to be done before it becomes really fun to use.