Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BSD Magazine mentions OpenIndiana
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 03:26, Dustin Marquess wrote: > My main laptop ran PC-BSD for months. It then ran Solaris 11 Express > for a couple of weeks. It worked damn well, except I couldn't stand > GNOME. Kept meaning to try the KDE packages out, let me use this as an opportunity to plug KDE (even though many of you will have heard this from me before): I use it exclusively on my main workstation (at home, sadly not my work workstation anymore) and have been since I was running - IIRC - snv b<100, now on OI 148, and have been happy with it most of the time, esp. recently. Yes, it's somewhat of a resource hog, and has its bugs, but surpasses Gnome by far where it counts for me (configurability, for one). Michael -- regards/mit freundlichen Grüssen Michael Schuster ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BSD Magazine mentions OpenIndiana
My main laptop ran PC-BSD for months. It then ran Solaris 11 Express for a couple of weeks. It worked damn well, except I couldn't stand GNOME. Kept meaning to try the KDE packages out, but I ended up moving to Linux Mint for two reasons: 1) No Bluetooth support - Big for me as my Logitech keyboard & mouse are both bluetooth 2) No Chrome/Chromium/Opera. No big, but annoying. -Dustin On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 10:09 +, Jonathan Adams wrote: >> True, but then Sun did mess up by abandoning Solaris x86 (last release >> Solaris 8) just at the time that it (x86) really took off, and in >> realising their mistake started producing Solaris x86 (First release >> late Solaris 9) ... >> >> It caused us problems and headaches because we ran Oracle on one of >> our servers (although we had some Sparc in house at the time) and >> Oracle said that they were going to stop supporting x86. >> >> We now have only 1 Sparc box left, about 30 x86 Solaris 10 boxes ... >> and currently 1 OpenIndiana laptop ... > > Only 1 *Solaris box left here as well - and that's my workstation daily > driver. Been meaning to getting around to switching it over to FreeBSD > but time has slipped by. > > I took 148-dev for a short test drive shortly after "release" and man, > OI is so sluggish as to be pretty much unusable as a desktop and I just > wrote it off as a dev release, still not ready for prime time. > > Subsequently Alasdair posted his stable release proposal, which made me > think I needed to revisit OI and take a closer look. Then this BSD mag > article comes out. Interestingly, the article author acknowledges that > it takes forever and a day to boot, but then comments on it performing > well. > > I installed in on an exact clone of my workstation (presently > OS-2009.06) and the difference was like night and day. I didn't have > time to look into it at all but mayhaps some major x server changes? > Graphics card is Radeon RV370, wh/uses radeon driver on the os box, but > Gnome being so slow makes me wonder if maybe OI was defaulting to vga? ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BSD Magazine mentions OpenIndiana
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 10:09 +, Jonathan Adams wrote: > True, but then Sun did mess up by abandoning Solaris x86 (last release > Solaris 8) just at the time that it (x86) really took off, and in > realising their mistake started producing Solaris x86 (First release > late Solaris 9) ... > > It caused us problems and headaches because we ran Oracle on one of > our servers (although we had some Sparc in house at the time) and > Oracle said that they were going to stop supporting x86. > > We now have only 1 Sparc box left, about 30 x86 Solaris 10 boxes ... > and currently 1 OpenIndiana laptop ... Only 1 *Solaris box left here as well - and that's my workstation daily driver. Been meaning to getting around to switching it over to FreeBSD but time has slipped by. I took 148-dev for a short test drive shortly after "release" and man, OI is so sluggish as to be pretty much unusable as a desktop and I just wrote it off as a dev release, still not ready for prime time. Subsequently Alasdair posted his stable release proposal, which made me think I needed to revisit OI and take a closer look. Then this BSD mag article comes out. Interestingly, the article author acknowledges that it takes forever and a day to boot, but then comments on it performing well. I installed in on an exact clone of my workstation (presently OS-2009.06) and the difference was like night and day. I didn't have time to look into it at all but mayhaps some major x server changes? Graphics card is Radeon RV370, wh/uses radeon driver on the os box, but Gnome being so slow makes me wonder if maybe OI was defaulting to vga? -- Ken Gunderson ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BSD Magazine mentions OpenIndiana
True, but then Sun did mess up by abandoning Solaris x86 (last release Solaris 8) just at the time that it (x86) really took off, and in realising their mistake started producing Solaris x86 (First release late Solaris 9) ... It caused us problems and headaches because we ran Oracle on one of our servers (although we had some Sparc in house at the time) and Oracle said that they were going to stop supporting x86. We now have only 1 Sparc box left, about 30 x86 Solaris 10 boxes ... and currently 1 OpenIndiana laptop ... On 26 January 2011 01:26, Ian Collins wrote: > On 01/26/11 07:03 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: >> >> On 25 January 2011 17:32, Edward Martinez wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> in this month BSD (01/2011) issue, has an article comparing OpenIndiana >>> to >>> the BSDs on the desktop. >>> the article starts on pg: 36 and it's a free download >>> >>> OI is getting exposure :-) >>> >>> http://bsdmag.org/ >>> >> Ta for the link ... It's interesting and probably fair :) > > Except for this old chestnut: > > "OpenIndiana is a new player here, since Solaris started > to develop for i386 platform just a few years ago..." > > -- > Ian. > > > ___ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BSD Magazine mentions OpenIndiana
On 01/26/11 07:03 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: On 25 January 2011 17:32, Edward Martinez wrote: Hi in this month BSD (01/2011) issue, has an article comparing OpenIndiana to the BSDs on the desktop. the article starts on pg: 36 and it's a free download OI is getting exposure :-) http://bsdmag.org/ Ta for the link ... It's interesting and probably fair :) Except for this old chestnut: "OpenIndiana is a new player here, since Solaris started to develop for i386 platform just a few years ago..." -- Ian. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BSD Magazine mentions OpenIndiana
Ta for the link ... It's interesting and probably fair :) On 25 January 2011 17:32, Edward Martinez wrote: > Hi > > in this month BSD (01/2011) issue, has an article comparing OpenIndiana to > the BSDs on the desktop. > the article starts on pg: 36 and it's a free download > > OI is getting exposure :-) > > http://bsdmag.org/ > > ___ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] BSD Magazine mentions OpenIndiana
Hi in this month BSD (01/2011) issue, has an article comparing OpenIndiana to the BSDs on the desktop. the article starts on pg: 36 and it's a free download OI is getting exposure :-) http://bsdmag.org/ ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
