Daniel Payno wrote: > 2007/10/25, Garrett D'Amore : > >> First off, you're running Solaris 10, not OpenSolaris. While Solaris 10 >> is the best "stable" version of the OS, it lacks support for a lot of >> recent hardware. Some of this is improving, but generally, the best >> hardware support will be found in the OpenSolaris product. (I recommend >> using Solaris Express Community Edition build 74 or later.) >> ... >> Anyway, hopefully support will get better soon. But definitely run >> OpenSolaris on this, not S10. S10 will probably never have all the >> laptop features we are currently putting into OpenSolaris. >> > > I have that same model of a laptop and have succesfully installed > Solaris SNV_73 and solaris 10 8/07 (in another slice,sharing the grub) > > The network interface is the gani driver. A search for gani within > opensolaris.org should suffice. It works swell in both o.s. > > cheers, > > That's relative to how much you need bluetooth, dbus enabled volume management, and a more intuitive and less buggy desktop experience. Sorry, Solaris 10 still remains a remnant of the old Sun ways, it is not made for desktops, let alone portables, it works fine on their systems though. xVM, Bluetooth, wireless drivers, WWAN, security & kernel enhancements are what you miss out on by using regular Solaris. Stability wise I have zero problems with either SXDE or SXCE, amazing considering they are beta/alpha software. Regular Solaris is fine for servers, it's just next to useless for portables unless you've been living under a rock.
James
