How does Solaris compare to Linux and Windows?

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anonymous · Answer

for me when I installed Solaries, all what I know is that solaries can't read NTFS or FAT32 partitions but Linux and Windows can do so.

anonymous · Answer

It's a Unix OS originally born as SunOS. As such, you have access to derivatives of most of the standard Unix tools. It runs XWindows, and Gnome and KDE compile and run on it (although I'm not sure in which versions).  It was designed as a server and workstation OS, and is known to be scalable with respect to multi-processor architectures and computing clusters. It was open sourced as OpenSolaris in 2005, then Oracle bought Sun in 2010 and soon decided to not release future versions as open source. The OpenSolaris developer community responded by forking the OpenSolaris code base and developing it further under the name OpenIndiana.