Is there a version of Solaris from around 1999-2001 That will run well on a computer from that era? It's a 366Mhs PII with 192Mb, but will soon be a 650Mhz (or faster) with 512Mb. I'm just curious at this point. If I decide to play with Solaris, Where can I get it?

You can run solaris 10 or opensolaris right now. The problem is you don't have enough ram to run a gui. You have to stick to command line. There are also other choices, linux, bsd, maybe qnx and beos would run. I'm sure beos would run. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

That's why I'm asking about a version that's as old as my ThinkPad. I couldn't care less about being up to date. (You should see my desktop - a 1986 Tandy Color Computer 3 - with Basic in ROM and a 4-user Unix called OS-9. How many people can use a single computer running Solaris at once?) I'm not really serious about Solaris, just curious. I've been interested in playing around with different OS's since I discovered multi-boot managers. It takes less space than a collection of CP/M and 8-bit unixes. But who knows? I might even end up deleting Windows. For now though, I'll be happy with something I can install in under 5 Gigs for the OS and run on the hardware I have.

Not sure when the first public offered sun x86 was. Unlike me.... Just because it is old doesn't mean it will work better. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

> Just because it is old doesn't mean it will work better. I would assume the system requirements would be typical of the computers being made at the time it was released. What would be the point of selling software for computers no one has yet? A 1999-2001 version of Solaris would probably work better on a 1999 computer than a 2009 version. That doesn't mean it will work well on a Laptop, but The 770Z compares pretty well to many desktops of that time. Where can I download the free version? Do they have older versions?

"A 1999-2001 version of Solaris would probably work better on a 1999 computer than a 2009 version. " I disagree. Solaris from back then was still a server system. Not marketed to the common user for desktops. Most of the support was enterprise level hardware. See Sun.com for any software. http://www.sun.com/software/solaris... "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10