Yeah, I tried it. It is really fast. I can’t live without my firefox extensions though. :)

I must say, Kazehakase is probably the fastest browser I’ve ever used. It renders with Gecko, so it isn’t some non-functioning browser (a la links). As soon as I click the icon, it is up. That fast. If you’re on Linux, give it a shot (ironic I’m in FF now).

@Jake – locking out users based on their browser is just plain lazy and inconsiderate. I hate when people do that.

[quote comment=”5870″]Every now and then, I fire-off Solaris on my MacBook. Now that is getting geeky![/quote]

Nah. Not nearly as geeky as the people who figure out how to run Linux on their XBox or PSP. :mrgreen:

Well, it is a little known fact that Solaris x86 was out as far back as 2.5.1. My first taste was with Solaris 7 on an old Pentium Pro 200mhz with 128mb RAM and 4gig Drive. This was my primary workstation from 1999 to 2002, until I graduated to an Ultra 60.

Every now and then, I fire-off Solaris on my MacBook. Now that is getting geeky!

@Lucas: Yes, I occasionally have to use a different browser to access a site… or so it says. I just tell I’m using Internet Explorer, Netscape, or whichever and I’m fine. The only problem is when I forget to change it back. I want the sever logs to know that I use Linux and Firefox. Not sure why.

@Criag – when I was an undergrad we had a whole lab of Spark machines running Solaris. We used them for almost everything since this was the only lab on campus that did not require 20+ minute wait for a machine.

The lab was for CS majors only, and since most of the CS majors were cluless n00bs (ah the joys of .com era, when everyone and their mom wanted to “do computers” and get the low skill, easy money web design jobs) the lab was always empty.

Anyway, now that Solaris 10 runs of x86 architecture more people may decide to run it at home. :) But yeah, Solaris boxes are more likely to be servers than desktop machines.

@Jake – yeah, masking your user agent is easy. I actually routinely “cheat” it because my generic Firefox install on the Kubuntu box registers as Mozilla on Linux. So I put the correct info in general.useragent.extra in about:config.

Or you can use a plugin to mask yourself as IE, Opera and etc. So this is by no means a 100% accurate system. It’s mostly what your browser agrees to tell me about.

Then again it’s usually a good idea to run under correct user agent since some people use it to serve you correct CSS and browser specific scripts.

Craig Betts: I can’t help but wonder if people are using fake user agents sometimes. Like right now, I should be seen as using Minimo on a Windows Mobile Device, but I only own a Palm OS PDA. Anyway, first and last time cloaking a user agent just to be fun for the comments here. :)

Even though I am a Solaris fanatic, I would consider it weird (or at least rare). Not many people would even think about using Solaris at home.

Then again, I once saw a person hit my blog with Mosaic running on VMS. Now that is weird!

I wouldn’t consider Solaris and BSD weird. On the other hand though, I haven’t seen BeOS used in the wild until now.

I know its off topic, but it’s kind of weird… look at all the difference here…

Weird OSes: BSD (sort of I guess), Solaris, BeOS
Wierd Browsers: Kazehakase and NetPositive