Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I was wondering... what do you feel is missing in the OpenSolaris > Desktop? We all have our small little things that we miss from the > linux (rest of open source) world: this or that useful software that > is in Ubuntu, or that nice feature that is in FreeBSD. > > What are these things? It would be great to make a listing of them and > try to fix them. The better we know the problems the easier we find > the solutions. > > We all have made small sacrifices when we switched from other systems. > All the benefits of OpenSolaris shouldn't come with the cost of > missing X or Y software. > > Cheers, really appreciate the help, > > Luis
Hi, not really desktop but desktop experience: 0. terminfo and keyboard shortcuts working by default both for X applications and for console / terminal ones. Color terminal by default. 1. When swapping, OpenSolaris desktop is unusable compared to Linux. 2. Power outage during system run causes often boot archive corruption that needs to be fixed in single user mode. Linux just boots up again with no hassle, and since 2005 I've experienced no fs data corruption during power outages on Linux. 3. Dedicating 1GB RAM solely for ZFS is overkill. I want my RAM back for my games, browser, OS, virtual machines.... I know I can configure ZFS to eat less, but eating 1GB by default? 4. Update Wine in contrib repo to work with Boomer (sound drivers) flawlessly and without need for manual intervention. 5. Something like top or powertop. I want to know what eats my memory. At best it could cover drivers and kernel too. gnome-system-monitor seems not enough when my workstation with 2GB RAM swaps and crawls like slime and gnome-system-monitor displays ~300MB used by programs ... Cheers Hark
