Kristian Rink wrote: > 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. > > A few weeks tops, expect the end of this month if all goes to plan. There are no solid plans reported by Sun employees but I am fairly confident.
James
