This is one OS that pretty much came out of the blue. The last time I looked at Sun Microsystems' Solaris was waaay back when the only free option was Solaris "Express" beta builds.

A graphical GRUB prompt greeted me and after some time booting I was asked via a text menu to choose my keyboard layout and language.

That brought me to a desktop whose prominent feature was a very large End-User License Agreement. Apparently Sun hasn't disposed of those. I read through it. It was basically just Sun's CDDL license, which is similar but not identical to the GPL.

The installer itself reminded me of Redhat's Anaconda, with more of a Java 7 look and feel to it. (Yes, I meant Java 7, the beta.)

This is probably an odd thing to notice, but the time zone selection screen was pretty to me. What can I say, I guess I'm just used to the same old time zone screen from Ubuntu and the like and I was glad to see something different.

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