I tried several releases of SXDE over the last 18 months including SXDE 01/08 and on my machine (admittedly 3 years old now) I experienced instability.
I decided to give Opensolaris 2008.05 a go and have found it to be incredibly stable so far, however, incredibly hard to build open source packages from source. The differences from SXDE/Solaris 10 must be causing difficulties. May 5 of about 25 packages or dependencies which I've attempted to build have built, and fewer have installed. Some get all the way through no problems. I wouldn't have expected such a high failure rate with spec files but it must be down to the differences in the new release. No luck with sane, cups, gcc, kdelibs3, kdebase3, eclipse, to mention some). Changing the topic slightly I also setup netbsd's pkgsrc and given it a go - similar story. Only a handle will build, many key dependencies won't build. Many of those available in the bulk build at http://public.enst.fr/pkgsrc/packages/SunOS-5.10/i386/pkgsrc-essentiel-2007Q4n0/ I have been unable to build with a recent cvs on pkgsrc (either with Sun studio express or gcc). It must come down to differences between the solaris10/indiana/Opensol 2008.05 versions. A shame as pkgsrc is officially supported for solaris - would be great to see it supported for Opensolaris, especially as complied pkgsrc packages can be turned into SVR4 packages. I guess this is typical early adopter pain. Apparently there are many packages in the pipeline for Opensolaris. I'm sure there'll be some great "bang for the buck" in terms of more Opensolaris packages when ways to get SFE running well on Opensolaris and hopefully pkgsrc too eventually get worked out. This message posted from opensolaris.org
