On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Guruprasad <lgp171188 at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> All the time I had a feeling that something wasn't going to work, but >>> the installation went off smoothly on my 512 MB RAM machine. But once >>> I booted into the new installation, it was way too slow to be usable. >>> At the most I could run one GUI application and the performance was >>> decent and more than 1 application (even if it is a terminal), it >>> became barely usable. >>> > > The issue is with 2008.11 release. Haven't tried installing 2008.05 on > the same machine. Anyways I want to have the latest release installed. > :-) >
Guruprasad, you might as well give a feedback to the opensolaris folk of your experience. The memory requirement from their own web page states: "512 MB minimum (This minimum has not been tested extensively yet.)" The memory requirements for 2008.5 and 2008.11 are same. Not much change there. I have installed both, rather upgraded one to the next. You need about 1 Gig memory to be really comfortable with OpenSolaris, irrespective of release. Though I run on OpenSolaris presently, I found Belenix on xfce quite okay in the live CD mode with 256 mb RAM. Just try out the live CD under xfce. if things are fine, install it on HDD and run on xfce ... you'd be better off than in OpenSolaris. If you are stuck with 512 mb, the other alternative is to install Nexenta. In console mode 256 mb is enough, and 512 mb is comfortable for GUI. Those used to debian, are really at home here, because at the user-land, it is just like debian with the regular apt-get. Bish
