Kristian Rink wrote: > Hi James, *; > > and first off, thanks a bunch for your comments on that. :) > > Yes it's fine, I just try and keep on top of threads which there hasn't been a response on, even if my answer isn't the best. > That could eventually explain things... What exactly is the problem here? > Seems to fit, along with eventually a little more load caused by the > full-blown GNOME desktop, after rebuilding XFCE on my installation [1] > things also seem to be a bit faster in some ways... > Perhaps it is really an issue with tracking file events (Which is more or less polled) causing strain on the desktop performance. > Yes installation used to be extremely slow, most Linux distributions do > better here, but then again, how often am I supposed to re-install after > all... :) > If you're keeping track of releases per build (Or even every other) it can be extremely time consuming and wearing on hardware. For general developers, who replace components until it is critically necessary to update the whole sink, it is certainly not an issue. IPS GUI is the slowest application I have ever used on any system in my computing history, it loves sucking out clock cycles and it draws the text extremely slow, but it now works when you click the install button and doesn't bomb out when resolving dependencies, which is a much better experience than with B98. > Aaah I see. Well that's where I after all feel lucky, it seems my Tecra > notebook doesn't have any trouble with this so far. Not that it really would > matter, as I am merely using it as a "portable workstation" which is > connected to AC most of the times anyhow... So far OS 08.11 feels pretty > pleasant, though... leaving the Firefox/Thunderbird speed thingy... Let's > wait and see then. :) > I'm more concerned with heat (My laptop is 0.9" thick with a 2.4GHz C2D T7700, it gets to a point where my palms feel uncomfortable) but it seems to work when enabled (Reboot seems to be required, probably some SMF services shuffling around) as kstat cpu_info reports hz at 8 million (800mhz, CPU min), whilst it typically runs at 24 million at full throttle (2400MHz, CPU max) Suspend/resume seems to work, but USB/internal devices do not wake it, only the power button, but it's certainly much better than I would had expected as the current out of the box support targets specific units which Sun has in-house, such as Acer Aspire and Thinkpad T60, probably Acer Ferrari and Vaio as well, though I'm unsure since the list hasn't been updated in a month or so.
When (if) Sun releases OpenSolaris 2008.11 (Maybe 2009.4 depending on flag days and integration schedules) things will be better for you. The current releases are chalk full of flags and extra options which won't be there with a tested release. (This is a generalization, since it varies on project, but I'm mainly speaking of ON, JDS and X.org) > Cheers & all the best, > Kristian > Cheers, James
