> So, I gave Solaris 10 (11/06) a shot. Solaris barfed all over me; like > a girlfriend you love but who just can't get it together, it wouldn't > get past the initial display probe and gave me an unintelligible (read > bank) GUI screen. So it was a text based install, which I don't mind, > as with FreeBSD, it was like the good old days! So I fired up the games > PacMan and Tetris on a crappy Windows 3.1 box and drank a New York > Seltzer (Root Beer, of course) and watched "Back to the Future" -which > also seems oddly antiquated these days (go figure), while it > installed. Then however, I began experiencing other issues with > Solaris on this notebook, that were not trivial, so I tossed Solaris,
I would recommend trying the experiment again using one of the distributions based on OpenSolaris. http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ Although Solaris 10 has made changes integrated into it that help with laptop use (GRUB and a new ACPI implementation for two), far more changes have integrated into OpenSolaris. Sun's own Solaris Express Developer Edition is a reasonable choice if compatibility with earlier releases is important (the Community Edition tracks the innovation more closely but also will tend to be less stable than the Developer Edition). dsc _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org