On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 17:16 +0100, Colin Ellis wrote: > Hi, > > I run OI 148 + patches on a sony laptop with 4GB of RAM using gnome as a > desktop. I can say for me I don't notice any desktop slowness. > > A couple of points: > > -My graphics card is reasonably well supported.
Ditto. > -My laptop has plenty of ram - often an issue that can cause slowness as OI > loves to cache disks heavily. Ditto. > -the default flash player is broken on 148 and gives issues with full screen +1 But I'm also seeing this on Debian Wheezy, so I think maybe Flash or nvidia driver issue. > video etc. Once that was updated I am able to play full screen HD video > flawlessly. I also have custom-built blender that I also use without any > issue and can render images at a similar speed to linux. > -I updated my bios to allow me full 64 bit access > > Bugs I have found: > -Gnome occasionally ends up corrupting itself on shutdown - not sure what's > causing it and its not often enough to spend my time on. I end up losing +1 > one of the top applets and have to re-insert it. > -NWAM keeps losing my wifi connection. It's a nasty program and needs > replacing with something that works properly. +1 > I haven;t found any good reason not to use OI as a desktop (work) machine. > One thing I would maybe push for is out of the box support for other > filesystems such as ext2/3/4, vfat, etc On oi-151, I could not get any of the 4 different sound cards I have on hand to work, though I seem to recall the onboard nvidia worked with 148. Too many Gnome glitches on 151 to mention. -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
