I have used various flavours of Linux over the years.
The University where I work uses various Sun products including Solaris.
I thought I would give it a try on a test platform to be used as a base OS for
running VirtualBox.
These are the issues I had that forced me to remove it from my system:
1. I could not get nwam to connect to the network using a Static IP. I
searched the web got answers changed the config file etc. Still would not
connect beyond localhost though it said it was connected.
Tried Network-config for manual setup. Still no luck. Could not ping outside
world.
My impression was that standard tools were disabled in favour of a "Magic"
wizard tool. The "magic" did not work in my case. I wasted far too much time
with something that I could have achieved easily with manual connection tools.
Not all networks employ only DHCP network connections. Very frustrating.
Had to re-Install Windows and in less than one minute I had my network
connected properly. I could have done the same with Ubuntu or SUSE or any
other OS.
2. The system I installed on has two monitors.
System->Administration->Display tool was missing and I could not set up second
monitor to be an extension of main display.
3. I could not install the admin tools that I wanted/needed as I could not get
to the internet.
Yes I know I could have solved these issues with only a few hours of effort...
But I don't have those hours to waste. NWAM is a bad idea or at least needs to
offer the ability to have more control when needed.
Administrative tools for disk management, display and networking etc. need to
be available.
I was really disappointed. I guess I was expecting too much.
Harryg
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