Solaris …
The operating system…
I have a server, test server at work, with Solaris 10 6/06 on it and I am playing with it.
ZFS, no problem, really great thing spanning across 4 drives with raidz(or zraid) , yam.
Zones or how some write, containers. Also great thingy. Containing different functionality on a same machine is very useful and adds to security ( as long long as base zone is not doing anything else that hosting other zones ).
G I just hate how bare setup you get when the system is fresh. Your env looks like it is coming from 80s no … 70s. I know that that is enoght for POSIX , but it doesn’t say that you should not make experience more pleasant. Setting PATH to use /usr/sfw /usr/ccs by default by root is not that hard… still I can deal with that, writing simple script which will add some usability to my shell is not a big problem.
What really got me angry is that I don’t know where are sources for apache2 delivered with a system… I need em to compile fastcgi module so I will have some decent speed with my rails app … now apache2 and rails are soooo bloody slow that webrick is faster than that. And no body has a pkg with lighttpd for sol 10 x86 … I will cry…
So far my experience with Solaris 10 is much of a pain… I see how much Linux distributions like Gentoo, Ubuntu are much superior to Sol , at least for starters. I know that when you know system well it is the best system for you, I know Solaris little bit, I’m learning … the only thing which pushes me back is the lack of modern env and nice intro documentation … at least I didn’t found anything …
Tomorrow is a day to compile and install lighttpd and check if it is any faster 🙂 maybe will write my sol_init.sh to stop bitching about no default configuration.
and yes, MySQL ( the pkg ) from mysql.com for Solaris 10 is not finished it  does not contain config for smf …