1) I use current of OpenBSD, but it's because of their release process. Their current version is far better then any other OS in stable version. OpenSolaris dev versions are not so good, but still very usable for normal work. And you have BE + ZFS + snapshots sou you don't need to be worry. In case of problems you can wait for another release on your previous BE. Security and apps updates are for free only in dev.
2) Adobe Reader is hell on any OS thanks to its security flaws and bugs in app. About libraries....no problem if you use apps from repositories. Either on OpenBSD, OpenSolaris or Linux. When you start compile apps then you can expect problems and a lot of RTFM and UTFG on any OS. But yes on OpenSolaris it's more visible (as I discovered too). 3) In OpenSolaris if you will use eg. 'pfexec pkg uninstall -v firefox' in Terminal then you will see what was done during remove of package. But to know where are packages stored you must read documentation about it(IPS) and at least 'man filesystem'. It use ZFS so no disk fragmentation (there aren't tools for it) at maximum you can get only full disk :-) Registry cleanup? No registry here 'man filesystem'. Disk error checking provide ZFS automatically but it's good idea to start sometimes scrub function in ZFS either manually or with some script and of course you have backups, do you? Viruses - a very small amount viruses for Unix-like systems because thanks to philosophy they need VERY active reponse from user. It may change in future as you can see with MacOs X, but still it's mainly because of poor implementation and "approach to newbies". Network tuning - system tries a lot, but still you can improve it a lot and you can tweak your OS, but if you have some piece of crap with some horrible binary blob driver from some obscure vendor (it may be even Cisco ;-)) as your AP, firewall, ADSL router and so on then you can expect problems. Or if your ISP is idiot like in this case http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=12596907080 4275&w=2 . Services are covered very well in OpenSolaris with SMF 'man smf' . IPS is Image Packaging System. For command line there is a pkg command and in Gnome you have GUI version for some basic things. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
