James Cornell schrieb: > 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.
No problem. :) At the very least there's some life in here... given that OpenSolaris so far generally makes quite a fine desktop, I just hope for some more traffic around here then and now... > Perhaps it is really an issue with tracking file events (Which is more > or less polled) causing strain on the desktop performance. At least I could imagine file polling having an impact on file system performance in general... I will try whether this is reproducible on my system... [installation] > 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. I haven't so far ever gotten anything installed using the IPS GUI. Feel kinda home with the command line 'pkg' even though, this seems the very tool to use for me. Asides this I indeed tend to do an image-upgrade this way once in a while, both to see whether it works and (well, too...) to avoid the installation procedure... ;) Not sure what's different, but installing the Ubuntu live filesystem is pretty much faster here... ZFS? [power] > 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 Aaah I see. :) Given I work attached to a docking station most of the time this is not too much of an issue indeed in my case... Used to have an old Acer a while ago, though, which suffered from the same problem in Linux, wasn't that pleasant running an appserver and an IDE and eventually a db server, giving load to the machine... ;) [...] > 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) I will keep an eye on things for sure... Do you expect that much of a delay on OS2008.11? Seems rather strong, and yet I'd prefer a stable to an early release. So far however, at the very least, OpenSolaris does well work with my beamer so it's good when visiting customers once in a while... :] Cheers, K. -- Kristian Rink cell : +49 176 2447 2771 business: http://www.planconnect.de personal: http://pictorial.zimmer428.net "we command the system. calling all recievers. we are noisy people for a better living". (covenant - "monochrome")
