I've been looking for a machine to run opensolaris on at home
instead of having to fight for test machines at $work.
I wish it could have been a sparc based machine, but while Sun make
some really sweet machines, they are neither cheap nor quiet. The
release of the OpenSPARC
T1 might solve the problem in the long run, but it is bound to
take a while.
The solution for now is buying an AMD X2 based box and learning to live with
the small deficiencies of Solaris on X86/64. It hasn't been easy
though, because even with the Solaris HCL, there's very litte
information to be found out there about what works and what
doesn't.
My choice based on what I've found on blogs and really wanting a quiet machine is:
It will be good to get a decent machine again to do some more playing around with opensolaris. Now I just hope that SHG will devliver it within a few days.