well today im back to karmic amd64 cuz well osol for me at personal level is unusable, for server so far is pretty nice. i think ill try again when 2010 is stable but osol have very critical issues in my opinion that need to be fixed to be at least able to handle a non Sun guru users at desktop lvl. so here is the summary
things to be adressed: 1. well osol basically dont come with any software usable for desktops, dunno mplayer, inkscape, a recent gimp build with plugins, etc. im a C++ dev anyway so i decided to compile every software i need from the scratch but well read below. 2. issue: in osol there is a serious compiler issue with C++ including sunstudio 12u1 and express, aka basically everything that need C++ fails to compile one way or the other, for example libboost always fail with iropt or ccfe or ld crashes, in some cases there are symbols missing in ld.so.1 like _checkstack or something like that. some of this issues are fixed in sun patches but osol dont update to those and patchadd was removed so is kinda nice :( but anyway i found i way to manually install those patches wich helped a bit removing several crashes from iropt and ccfe but i couldnt find a solution for the bugged ld.so.1 so no hope for me with sun studio and C++ sadly, well gcc time then basically it works but it feels unstable like sometimes make fails and make for second time compiles fine. solution: patch more often sunstudio, try gcc 4.4 at least and well try to build libboost(0.40 plz) cuz is one of the nastier c++ code around easy to get, i dare to say that if sunstudio can compile it well it can be considered stable for most codes, or well use another compiler like pgi or the one from amd 3.issue:osol after boot is fast enough, not linux fast. but ppl you really need to do something with that boot process, 2m in a quad c...@3.7ghz with 8gb ram just lol but the weird thing is that i assume that svc been based in xml should handle boot faster that ultra scripted systems like sysv or at least should be easier to readahead or something like that solution: implement readahead, some sort of paralell boot improvement, raise gdm when svc meat the most minimal dependencies. 4. sound and video well need more work i think, in the video side intel works but depending the build can get real nasty, nvidia seems to work very nice, amd no fragging way in hell yet. sound well very poor at best at least from my audiophile point of view. solutions: well in the case of video drivers i know is hard work the dri/drm migration from linux so not big deal here, about sound like i said before migrate alsa to osol, aka better driver, full software compatibility, sound quality, mmm i dare to say that audio quality (aka fidelity, latency, rt, etc) is really near to mac os x leopard, some guy mention bsd sound system but i tested it with a friend in a studio (freebsd 8 btw) and well for basic mp3 music and stuff is just fine but for real audio application at profesional level or audiophile lvl is very far from mac or alsa especially with very high bitrate and digital ouputs and well dont talk about ac3 passthrough or multichannel audio 4. package system: it horrible like i said before, even ips is like a kick in the nuts, really wanna save some time just compile from sources and get patches from nexenta. ips will just consume you life solution: apt i wont say anything else nice things: 1. wifi is awesome, at least my intel and atheros card, lol even wpa2 is superb so kudos here 2. zfs pure awesomeness 3. ip stack well the best, well obviously for a server plataform 4. rock stable 5. xvm + crossbow is da shit, so big kudos here too 6. svc is a nice concept but is too slow for now, so nice work but speed it up 7. drm is nice when it works ofc, but so far seems promising just mmm update Xorg/mesa a bit when you can, maybe xcb too thx for the hard work, ill be back testing in some time -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
