On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:50:56 +0200
Kristian Rink <lists at zimmer428.net> wrote:
> Luis de Bethencourt schrieb:
> [...]
> > 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.
>
> - Generally, asides Time Slider I miss kind of a "killer feature"
> making me think "wow, now _that_ is why I want OpenSolaris on the
> desktop".
I disagree here. To me the choice for OpenSolaris on the desktop comes
from the fact that I -WANT- the OS underneath to run on my systems. I
trust (open)solaris much more than I trust the linux kernel.
If I only wanted a nice, fast good looking desktop, I'd go for Ubuntu,
but as said I want OpenSolaris underneath.
> - The amount of packages available in the IPS repositories is way too
> limited. Lack of "many" pre-built packages in my opinion is a major
> problem. Here where I am, I usually am asked how to get most
> up-to-date KDE4 desktop to work with OpenSolaris...
This is absolutely true. Precompiled packages for much used programs
are lacking. I know it is still a young repo, but still.. It's a
disappointment for people coming i.e. from linux/*BSD
> - The visual interface ("package manager") to IPS is, at least on my
> system (Dual Core CPU, 2GHz, 2 GB RAM) horribly slow
Hmmm, that's personal I think. On my AMD64-4000+ (a much slower CPU) it
runs snappy enough. Not much difference with Ubuntu here.
> SUNWgnome-img-editor at 0.5.11,5.11-0.111:20090508T155210Z
Nothing wrong with that, if at least the name "gimp" can be found in
the description ;-)
> is of pretty little help here. This is painful at the very least to
> those moving here from GNU/Linux or *BSD.
Naming of i.e. Debian packages is not clear either in some cases. I
guess this is something you have/can get used to.
> - As a full-time GNU/Linux user, I keep most of my data stored on an
> external disk using an ext3 file system. Given these file systems are
> open source altogether, I wonder why OpenSolaris can't mount any of
> these drives "out of the box", simply while having it plugged in
> (Disclaimer: the last time I tried this was in late 2008, not sure
> how lates releases do here). This would be helpful. :)
This one is VERY true. I personally think it's a shame that so few
filesystems can be mounted natively by any solaris flavour.
I keep a laptop with Ubuntu just for this wonderful connection thing.
Plugin whatever FS and it's not only been reckognized, but you can
actualy work with it! Read/write is no problem.
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