Solaris 10 - UNIX for the people?

Here is a good article about Solaris 10
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10673

A better option I guess is OpenSolaris
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/

Also Gentoo have announced plans to add OpenSolaris support to portage which is a great combination.
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20050124-newsletter.xml

Portage tree has been ported to other OS like FreeBSD and others
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo/Alt
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-freebsd.xml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo/FreeBSD