Alright, I realize it isn't fair to be slogging Solaris 9 as slow on a 110MHz machine, but Sun's Solaris 9 operating system is very slow on my Sun Sparcstation 5 (SS5), even with 224MB (almost the maximum) RAM. If you're thinking about trying Solaris 9 on your SS5, think of it like you would trying to run Windows XP on a Celeron 433MHz machine with 128MB RAM, it will run, but not well.
The Solaris web startup is really quite nice, and I would imagine on a Sun Blade it would rock, but not on this machine.
Installing Solaris took the better part of an evening. There was a lot of data, and transfer was slow on the 12x CDROM. Once installed, I played with CDE (Common Desktop Environment) for 20 minutes or so before I realized that I would just prefer the text interface of Debian GNU/Linux, and all the software that comes with it. Solaris is pretty, just don't try running CDE on a SS5.
Currently Sun is touting Solaris 10. You can get version 9 and earlier versions by following the Solaris link in the resources, Choosing Downloads from the top navigation menu, selecting see all, Operating Systems, and Solaris Operating Systems.
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