[sf-lug] New to the list

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Paul Ward (dssstrkl at gmail.com):

> I just want to say hello to everyone. I'm going to be a bit of a  
> lurker, since I'm neither an expert nor a noob. I'm mainly interested  
> in flavors of UNIX that are useful in a small environment, which means  
> OS X, linux and when I'm feeling hardcore and slightly masochistic,  
> BSD. I tried to install Solaris once, but almost died in the process.  
> I hope to be useful to the group and actually show up to a meeting  
> once in a while!

Welcome!

FWIW, the Solaris installer has been improved a good bit in v. 10.x, 
though the support for x86 hardware remains more than a little thin.
Oddly enough, Linux-inspired derivatives are easier, such as BeleniX
(http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/) and especially
Nexenta (http://www.nexenta.org/os/Home).