Hi, Anyone tried the Atom-based 901 Asus with OpenSolaris yet (snv90 or above)? I would like to get a idea of hardware support and performance?
I hope Sun could do some internal testing this time. So that, when it comes out in Australia, all the hardware will 'just work' with OpenSolaris, inc. WiFi and keyboard. It's clear there is big market for this kind of hardware, and as it fully supports the Linux kernel then why not the Solaris one?! Thanks, Edward. 2008/6/20 Matthew Gardiner <kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com>: > 2008/6/20 W. Wayne Liauh <wp at hawaiilinux.us>: > >> The second main difference is that the 901 comes > >> pre-installed with StarOffice (mistakenly reported as > >> "SunOffice", but I don't blame them. :-) ), instead > >> of the OpenOffice.org in 900. > > > > Actually IMHO the name SunOffice sounds much much better, especially in > light of the fact that StarOffice has so drastically improved from when Sun > first acquired it. (Star Office 6.0 was the first "major" improvement > because it could be loaded in "slightly less than two big minutes"! Now OOo > 2.4 loads in just a couple of seconds.) Sun used to sell SunOffice (at > least in Japan), but stopped using the name after the StarOffice > acquisition. Perhaps it's time to consider going back to the old name (also > in consideration of the heavy entanglement b/t OpenOffice.org and > Java/NetBeans)? > > > > As a side note, Sin-Yaw has decided to quit his adventure with the Asus > 900. One of the reasons is its pathetically short battery life (130 > minutes). Too bad, he should have waited a little longer, as I had > suggested, and tried the Atom-based 901 (280 minutes battery life running at > power-saving mode). > > > > Rumor has it that Acer has ordered 1 million of Intel's Atom processors. > This market is getting interesting. > > Sun Office sounds alot nicer. Everytime I hear 'Star Office', it > reminds me of those cheap generic no-name brands, "Here is Microsoft > office, and here is the budget branded StarOffice". > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 standard file format for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents from this email address. The author does not take responsibility of the recipients inability to read international standards and who use proprietary products such as MS Office. See: http://www.openoffice.org/ Edward O'Callaghan. -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EdwardOcallaghan http://moonshine.opn4.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20080620/31550474/attachment.html>
