I don't want to start a debate about security, but it comes at a price for any OS. Linux, Solaris, and the BSDs should all be secure enough for desktop use with nothing listening by default.
Looking Glass looks neat, but I wonder if it would be usable without 3D acceleration. Nvidia provides Solaris drivers (do you still have to hack the PCI ID?), but unless I'm missing something, ATI barely supports Linux much less Solaris (would open source drivers work? XiG?) That's just the tip of the iceberg for driver support. Desktop users tend to have old, cheap, and obscure hardware. Of course if Google wanted to bundle the OS and hardware like Apple does, it wouldn't be an issue. The biggest reason I see is that Google already uses Linux and must employ some extremely talented Linux hackers. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
