[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-19 Thread Brian Cameron
Alan: > Ah, if you mean the client libraries, and not the Xserver as you stated, > we're still working on updating our libraries from our X11R6 forked versions > to X11R7. Indiana of course went straight to the X11R7 versions, and found > a number of incompatibilities in the process, that we're

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-19 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 10:51 -0800, Karel Gardas wrote: > 4) poor software support for hardware monitoring: I'm used to see on gnome > panel applets for CPU/motherboard and all hard-drives temperatures. I'm also > used to run a long version of SMART tests on all the disks weekly by using > smart

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Brian Cameron wrote: > > Alan: > >>> In general Xserver extension support on Solaris tends to lag a >>> bit behind Linux. This affects both performance and the degree >>> of functionality supported within the desktop. We seem to be >>> catching up a bit lately, but I would say w

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-18 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 16:05 +0400, Vano Beridze wrote: > I had the same experience. > > I had AMD Athlon 3500+ CPU with 1GB RAM and SXDE was dead slow on this. I disagree. I run sxde4 on an athlon 4000+ w/ 1GB ram and it flies. The machine is very responsive. I have Firefox, Evolution, Pidmin, s

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-18 Thread Vano Beridze
Karel Gardas wrote: > Hello, > > first of all, I decided to give SXDE 1/08 a try and use it for day-to-day > C++/Java development. The main reason behind the move was horrible ZFS > performance on Linux, so I'd like to test a "native" speed. After the switch > I can claim that now my home (ZFS-b

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-18 Thread Brian Cameron
Alan: >> In general Xserver extension support on Solaris tends to lag a >> bit behind Linux. This affects both performance and the degree >> of functionality supported within the desktop. We seem to be >> catching up a bit lately, but I would say we are still behind. > > I woul

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-18 Thread Karel Gardas
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Karel Gardas wrote: >> >> 1) VM/scheduler issue: I precisely cannot identify the culprit, but >> I'm surprised by the fact how some applications startup is longer than >> on Linux (Firefox/Thunderbird). Also they seem to consume much more >> memory afte

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-18 Thread Brian Cameron
There are some areas within the Desktop where you might expect Linux to run faster than Solaris. Here are some examples: 1) Many GTK+ based programs now use the Xserver Xrender extension for best performance. If you are running an Xserver that doesn't yet support Xrender, then you will

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Brian Cameron wrote: > In general Xserver extension support on Solaris tends to lag a > bit behind Linux. This affects both performance and the degree > of functionality supported within the desktop. We seem to be > catching up a bit lately, but I would say we are still behind. I

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-17 Thread James Cornell
Orvar Korvar wrote: > Yes, it is definitely ZFS that is eating up all your RAM, as it Enterprise > file system. If you would like, give up ZFS and you would get a much faster > system, as you have more RAM for the Enterprise OS: Solaris. But to me, ZFS' > superior file security is certainly wort

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-17 Thread Orvar Korvar
Yes, it is definitely ZFS that is eating up all your RAM, as it Enterprise file system. If you would like, give up ZFS and you would get a much faster system, as you have more RAM for the Enterprise OS: Solaris. But to me, ZFS' superior file security is certainly worth more RAM. I would not like

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-16 Thread James Cornell
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Karel Gardas wrote: > >> 1) VM/scheduler issue: I precisely cannot identify the culprit, but >> I'm surprised by the fact how some applications startup is longer >> than on Linux (Firefox/Thunderbird). Also they seem to consume much >> more memory

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Karel Gardas wrote: > > 1) VM/scheduler issue: I precisely cannot identify the culprit, but > I'm surprised by the fact how some applications startup is longer > than on Linux (Firefox/Thunderbird). Also they seem to consume much > more memory after short period of time than

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-16 Thread Karel Gardas
Hello, first of all, I decided to give SXDE 1/08 a try and use it for day-to-day C++/Java development. The main reason behind the move was horrible ZFS performance on Linux, so I'd like to test a "native" speed. After the switch I can claim that now my home (ZFS-based) directory is really flyin