General Cody wrote: > I have the exact same problem. My CPU is Intel Celeron M 520 1,6ghz. > > Hope this get's fixed. Keeps a lot of users from using Solaris... > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Not really. Maybe mobile users, but out of all the vendors, a lot of people have been going the Apple route lately. OpenSolaris' benefits outweigh the current support issues for full-time developers. Generally UNIX is not suitable for typical end-users, it lies in the development model, current support, politics, and commercial support. Of course if your needs only include developing standards adherent C/C++ or Java, playing patent-free media, posting to blogs and surfing, and remotely connecting to machines using vnc, rdesktop or ssh, it works, but so does FreeBSD in this case. I agree that the Intel cards are very common though. Regular people won't use Solaris, if you mean Solaris 10, it's quite nasty to work with unless you like spending hours going through Sun's documentation. It works great for a server and maybe if you're a sysadmin honing your skills, it'd work. OpenSolaris is much more user friendly, in both the hardware support and feature availability sense, still missing a lot of things though, namely binary builds of the current Xen for us that still must use Windows somehow without resorting to using another machine or rebooting, and a universal media player that doesn't call itself "Movie Player".
James
