Hi all OpenSolaris is meant for Desktop usage. We all have become more mobile and multimedia users. Multimedia needs good and actual video/audio drivers and this is where all the linux community invested all their energy in the past. (for years) The community grew up and with ubuntu as one of the first linux distro including closed source 3rd party drivers, it is now the one and only free Distro which is really userfriendly. It tries to be like a mac: 'it just works!'
OpenSolaris as counterpart wants to be the better ubuntu, but for now it's not. Ubuntu with apt does the software management very well and much faster than ips does. The one and only killer feature for End-Users is ZFS for Backup/Restore. Mac's Time-Machine does the 'same' job on a very old HFSplus-Filesystem. How it is technically secured and implemented doesn't matter. The user wants an additional value that comes with an easy to use feature. Time-Machine does it on it's own way. (Please don't spot on technical features of ZFS) All this Applications have to be as stable as possible with the possibility to stay up to date with the newest eye catching applications. And here is the most lacking thing of openSolaris. Just porting Apps from Linux will always means to be one step behind. The fact that Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office etc. isn't available for Linux and Opensolaris is the reason why most users won't migrate. Why should they? There is apple! To be honest - Snow Leopard is still the best Desktop OS. Windows 7 is about to catch up. And they are trying both to be secure by default. The only Problem is their overbearing market share - Hackers always focus on the biggest piece of cake. The only thing where Solaris with ZFS still is first - The Server/NAS Domain. And there I don't need DEV-Related Beta-Testing Stuff. Therefore I still would prefere Solaris 10. ZFS-Dedup of course would be genial for Multimedia-Content distributed in a lot of different folders. It doesn't matter now how many versions of the same picture, movie is multiplexed in different locations - WoW! A lot of safed hours cleaning/merging Multimediafolders. But I'm sure... this feature will find it's way to Solaris 10 - like all the innovative Features from OpenSolaris. So OpenSolaris as Distro is a nice Playground but haven't found a place yet - Neither Server nor Desktop Domain. Netbook- and Laptop-Domain unreachable cause there still isn't a usable GSM-Support. Just my 50cent. Cheers G?rald Quoting Mika Borner <opensolaris at bluewin.ch>: > Daniel Bossert wrote: >> >> She is using Thunderbird and firefox with facebook-games. This combination >> is a good stresstest to see if a system works..) >> So, tomorrow evening I'm going to install Ubuntu 9.10 ... (I propose >> you'll hate me now). Also, with osol, firefox got dark about 4 times >> within 2 hours. This means a huge load.. >> > > Regarding Firefox and snv 127. I've also had some problem, which are > IMHO related to the flash plugin (Firefox gets dark for some seconds, > but recovers after a few seconds). > > I had the same effect in an earlier build, but didn't have the time to > nail down the problem. > > Otherwise, we have seven OSOL Desktops running with OSOL (5x 2009.05, > 2x Build 127) without any bigger problems. Five of them being Ultra 24 > machines. Your problems could be related to hardware/drivers... > > No, you're not allowed to install Ubuntu ;-) > > Cheers > Mika > _______________________________________________ > ug-chosug mailing list > ug-chosug at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-chosug
