dick hoogendijk schrieb:
>> - 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.
Good (and IMHO valid) point. :) I think that however these are two different
user groups to be targeted here: Those who intentionally and consciously are
to choose OpenSolaris because they want _that_ very system and hope for a
good desktop on top (like you and me) on one side and, on the other side,
those who "just" want to have a feature-laden, fully-fledged desktop but
don't care much about the system running underneath. To the latter group, in
my opinion, desktop features unique to OpenSolaris would be a good thing.
But I generally agree with you about that.
[packages]
>> - 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.
Hmmm... strange. The last time I tried to install the whole java development
tooling chain (netbeans, glassfish, jdk, a few other things) and in the end
it rendered package-manager unusable (the UI not refreshing anymore,
apparently "nothing" happening for about an hour) until I eventually killed
it and used pkg instead. :)
>> 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 ;-)
Yes, the name "gimp", but also the version of "gimp" (2.4.6) would be pretty
good in here. ;)
>> 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.
Basically yes, I agree, it's a matter of what one is used to. However I
think the Debian package namings in _most_ cases do have the advantage that
package names reflect the name of the "upstream" application packed in them.
"gimp" is packaged as "gimp". midnight commander ("mc") is packaged as "mc".
On OpenSolaris, "mc" comes packaged as SUNWgnu-mc. ;)
> 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.
I know what you mean. :) Plus, I want / need to have a file system which, at
least talking about r/o support, can be used in Windows to some extent and
supports large files (virtualbox images, self-built video clips, ...). Ext3
and some portable tool (explore2fs) at least work here. Regarding
communication between OpenSolaris and Windows, here, I yet have to see a
tool to meet this need. Writing NTFS on OpenSolaris? Even reading ZFS on
Windows? Linux-to-Solaris is no problem using ZFS, but Windows seems
completely out here...
Cheers,
Kristian
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