Solaris
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Jan 22, 2026first mention
Sep 21, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“bigger iron that was humming along on Solaris 8 which provided a very stable environment”
sysadmin running Sun hardwareon “What Sun got wrong”
“our workloads benefited from the trinity of Solaris' threading, ZFS tiered storage, and zones/containers”
worked at a Sun shop circa 2008-12on “Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage”
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“It quickly became my favorite OS.”
began using it in college with Solaris 7on “illumos”
Caveats and dissent
“It was, as far as I could tell, an operating system that nobody had ever tried to use before.”
ran servers in 1999on “What Sun got wrong”
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Threads where it came up
- What Sun got wrong 2 mentions
- Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage 1 mention
- MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150 1 mention
- illumos 1 mention
Data: solaris.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“bigger iron that was humming along on Solaris 8 which provided a very stable environment”
“It was, as far as I could tell, an operating system that nobody had ever tried to use before.”
“our workloads benefited from the trinity of Solaris' threading, ZFS tiered storage, and zones/containers”
“Around 1994, I moved to Linux and later Solaris, where crashes were rare.”
“It quickly became my favorite OS.”