My main laptop ran PC-BSD for months. It then ran Solaris 11 Express for a couple of weeks. It worked damn well, except I couldn't stand GNOME. Kept meaning to try the KDE packages out, but I ended up moving to Linux Mint for two reasons:
1) No Bluetooth support - Big for me as my Logitech keyboard & mouse are both bluetooth 2) No Chrome/Chromium/Opera. No big, but annoying. -Dustin On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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? _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
