On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 11:45 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > > What the vendor said next set me ablaze. > > > > "WE NEVER ADVERTISED THE SYSTEM WOULD WORK WITH > > SOLARIS" > > > > Pissed off! > > I have a different take on this. > > Recently I found my social status elevated quite a bit, & I realized that > this has a lot to do with the fact that I am running Solaris as my primary > desktop. I can definitely sense the attention (& envy/respect) whenever I > brought up this little side event. > > Of course, this has nothing to do with me; all credits go to Sun's (& those > related therewith) developers who have made this possible. But the general > public don't know this--yet, & I am enjoying this fame as long as it > lasts--probably not for too long though. :-)
Sounds a bit like the 'Mac OS X' effect :-) I get the same looks - "ooh, what operating system are you running? its pretty cool!". My mum seems to he happy with her Solaris installation on an old AMD Duron 850mhz. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
