Any advice on Solaris laptops?

[Joseph]

Hello Shawn,

  As someone who really likes Sun and has used Solaris
for ever I don't see Sun as a choice in that space. 
Arguably Sun has had amazing innovations and
contributions to the FOSS community and those are
definitively appreciated.  Unfortunately they don't
really have any salient Desktop focused offering. 
That's not a criticism but more of a statement of
reality.  That being said, in the server space I still
love Solaris and think its a great choice.

  Personally given the other choices of Ubuntu,
Debian, Centos, Fedora on the desktop space they are
eons ahead.  If you want BSD you should check out the
efforts of PC-BSD, Desktop BSD and even FreeBSD are
ahead of Solaris on the desktop in to many ways to
list.    

  Personally I would go with a Distro that has a focus
on Desktop functions rather than spend all your time 
re engineering the wheel that already exists. I.e.
Ubuntu/Kubuntu IMHO.  Any of the aforementioned is
great so make your own choice...    

Thanks,
Joe

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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:15:19 -0400
From: "Shawn K. O'Shea" <shawn at eth0.net>
Subject: Re: Any advice on Solaris laptops?
To: "Alex Hewitt" <hewitt_tech at comcast.net>
Cc: GNHLUG <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
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On 6/21/07, Alex Hewitt <hewitt_tech at comcast.net>
wrote:
> Since Solaris 10 is now provided under an Open
Source license, I
 thought
> it might be appropriate to ask if anyone has any
recommendations for
> running X86 Solaris 10 on a laptop.
>
> -Alex
>
> P.S. I'm not planning on doing this myself but have
a colleague who
 is
> interested.

Without going on my typical rant about Solaris/x86,
here's Sun's HCL
for Solaris 10 on laptops,
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/systems/views/all_laptops_all_results.page1.html

-Shawn