W. Wayne Liauh schrieb: [...] > Don't push it. No one will remember if it were a few days or even a few > weeks late. But everyone will remember it (for at least 6 months) if > there is a serious bug. :-)
I wholeheartedly agree with that. So far, there are a few things that really would be nice to have in OS2008.11 (especially some up-to-date XFCE 4.4(.3?) available through the "stock" IPS repositories), and I'd rather wait some more weeks for that than having an "on-time" release just for the sake of it. :) Anway, there are a few things I couldn't help noticing so far: - So far I am working half the time using Ubuntu 8.04 and the other half using OS 2008.11 pre-release and I use an USB hard drive to transfer things from Linux to OpenSolaris (vice versa doesn't work so far as I yet have to find a file system to support large files _and_ be writable from both systems - ext3 so far isn't ...). Asides this, in this setup the whole system almost seems to come to a halt when rsync'ing off the ext3 USB drive to somewhere in my ZFS file system. This is not that good... - I work on a docking station having an external 19" TFT @1280x1024 being my primary, my notebooks LVDS @ 1280x800 my secondary display (the latter one mainly used for displaying log files of production systems...). Using an intel 945GM display chipset, this is rather pleasant in dual-screen mode on Ubuntu hardy and (especially having Firefox, Thunderbird and friends opened) next to unusable in OpenSolaris so far - switching between virtual desktops in this setup is fluent on Linux and pretty stuttering on OpenSolaris right now. Is there something to be done (in terms of configuration) about this? - Overally, as a non-system-programmer: Is there any way contributing help to the OpenSolaris desktop project? I think it's a good thing despite the few current shortcomings(?)... Cheers & all the best, Kristian -- 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")
