On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 10:09 +0000, Jonathan Adams wrote: > True, but then Sun did mess up by abandoning Solaris x86 (last release > Solaris 8) just at the time that it (x86) really took off, and in > realising their mistake started producing Solaris x86 (First release > late Solaris 9) ... > > It caused us problems and headaches because we ran Oracle on one of > our servers (although we had some Sparc in house at the time) and > Oracle said that they were going to stop supporting x86. > > We now have only 1 Sparc box left, about 30 x86 Solaris 10 boxes ... > and currently 1 OpenIndiana laptop ...
Only 1 *Solaris box left here as well - and that's my workstation daily driver. Been meaning to getting around to switching it over to FreeBSD but time has slipped by. I took 148-dev for a short test drive shortly after "release" and man, OI is so sluggish as to be pretty much unusable as a desktop and I just wrote it off as a dev release, still not ready for prime time. Subsequently Alasdair posted his stable release proposal, which made me think I needed to revisit OI and take a closer look. Then this BSD mag article comes out. Interestingly, the article author acknowledges that it takes forever and a day to boot, but then comments on it performing well. I installed in on an exact clone of my workstation (presently OS-2009.06) and the difference was like night and day. I didn't have time to look into it at all but mayhaps some major x server changes? Graphics card is Radeon RV370, wh/uses radeon driver on the os box, but Gnome being so slow makes me wonder if maybe OI was defaulting to vga? -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
