Alessandro17 Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04879 It is an installable LiveCD. Impressive from some points of view. It recognized and configured most of my hardware. It installed a Nvidia driver at boot. What didn't work: sound (no driver) PPPoE: there is a network configuration tool, but it didn't work for some reason (maybe after installing the OS). For those of us who know Linux, OS X and possibly FreeBSD, OpenSolaris is an entirely different OS. It feels very stable and it uses very few resources, thus it could be ideal for a server. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 I do not know much about Linux or Solaris, but my impression is that Sun is a little late in making this move. From a server point of view, does Solaris really offer anything not available in Linux? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/#findComment-738883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDRacer48 Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 That scheme looks real nice. Man I love gnome... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/#findComment-738899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted May 7, 2008 Author Share Posted May 7, 2008 my impression is that Sun is a little late in making this move. I tend to agree. Others do as well: http://practical-tech.com/operating-system...es-just-to-die/ From a server point of view, does Solaris really offer anything not available in Linux? I don't know Solaris well enough to give a satisfactory answer. As I said, it feels very stable and it uses very few resources, it uses ZFS as the default filesystem... More here: http://www.opensolaris.com/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/#findComment-738904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_Geek Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 pretty nice Solaris rocks as a server Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/#findComment-738905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 What is the differences between (closed) Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/#findComment-738921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDRacer48 Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 A17, could you share that wallpaper please... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/#findComment-738928 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerTea Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 Downloading to play around with it... Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/#findComment-738958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jl8080 Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 dibs on the wallpaper too Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/#findComment-738961 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted May 7, 2008 Author Share Posted May 7, 2008 A17, could you share that wallpaper please... I believe I'd need to install it. It can be done, but not tonight (1.30 am here ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/#findComment-739005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDRacer48 Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 I believe I'd need to install it. It can be done, but not tonight (1.30 am ) If you need to install it to get it, don't worry about it. I will install it then and play with it myself later. Thanks Anyways Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/#findComment-739009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 I don't know Solaris well enough to give a satisfactory answer. As I said, it feels very stable and it uses very few resources, it uses ZFS as the default filesystem...More here: http://www.opensolaris.com/ My impression is that Solaris might be more stable and secure than Linux, but I am sure plenty of better informed people would disagree. I also suspect that Java on Solaris might have some speed advantages over Java on Linux. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/#findComment-739021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 I also suspect that Java on Solaris might have some speed advantages over Java on Linux. Sun "made" both so that would be a proper inference. Who knows? I just wish they put KDE on it... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/#findComment-739078 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaez Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Couldn't get Solaris 10 nor OpenSolaris LiveCD to install or run on my machine. Just hangs on boot, when trying to probe devices...will look into this when I get time later..however, immediate impression is that Sun hasn't taken the time to get their OS to recognise and run on different hardware platforms...considering I have Windows, MAC OS X, FreeBSD, Slackware Linux, all running on my machine without a hitch, and Knoppix, SLAX, Ubuntu live CDs all work fine recognising my hardware, it's kind of weird that Solaris hangs...Sun is waaay behind the crowd... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/103749-opensolaris-200805/#findComment-748903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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