There should be a warning label on Linux

[LoadWB]

My Win7 computer boots faster. I gave up on Linux. It reminded me too much of the days of Win95 and Win98--it's a GUI that runs atop DOS. The only Unix I would have is HP UX, but that's pricey.

Solaris kinda-fanboi reporting in.  I dabbled in Linux in my earlier days.  Did some VAX/VMS.  Got thrown to Solaris around 2.4 and have not looked back since.  I rather enjoy it, though its future is a little hazy under Oracle.  Back when Solaris 8 was still the big thing, and Solaris 9 dropped x86 support (no, wait, we were only joking,) Sun released Gnome and KDE packages.  I installed both and far preferred Gnome over KDE.  Anything over the CDE built in, even with its nostalgia value.

I had been exclusively command line in Solaris 10, though I did a recent VirtualBox installation of 10 with the Gnome desktop.  Still seems pretty sharp to me.

[LoadWB]

I had Solaris x86 installed years back. The x86 version had not been out very long, and it took an effort to get it running.

My biggest gripe about Solaris is that officially supported hardware in the HCL is all old and mostly discontinued -- especially RAID controllers.  Now, there are a number of unofficially supported devices in the list.

I understand OpenSolaris is pretty good, especially in terms of hardware support.  I am going to look into it.  My primary server is about eight years old running Solaris 8 x86 and it is past time for a replacement.  I would love to build a multi-proc/core system with a good SATA RAID controller to run a number of zones.  I figure either Solaris or OpenSolaris will do the trick.