Yes and no - as they lost the University crowd a while ago to Linux, you are pretty much on your own if you want to compile some third party code on Solaris, so

Yes and no - as they lost the University crowd a while ago to Linux, you are pretty much on your own if you want to compile some third party code on Solaris, so while the OS is perfectly viable on a subset of hardware - it's not something you'd either want to install on a laptop or try and build and run random code from github.