OpenSolaris 2008.05 DOA
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| Author | Content |
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| Steven_Rosenber May 07, 2008 3:59 PM EDT |
Has anybody tried to run this thing? I'm on my second CD, and it's not the burn that's messed up. This thing barely loads. I'm 20 minutes in on a test box with a 3 GHz Pentium 4 and 512 MB of RAM, and it's not done yet. Who are they kidding? |
| bigg May 07, 2008 4:32 PM EDT |
I tested it in Virtualbox with 1 GB of allocated RAM. It was much slower than any Linux I've run in VB - I have short breaks throughout the day, so I have tested at least 50 different distros that way. I think 512 MB is not really enough, even if it eventually loads. There's still a lot of work to be done. It's at best an alpha IMO. |
| flufferbeer May 07, 2008 8:56 PM EDT |
Me-two ism.
I'm also having similar experiences to Steven_Rosenber with SUNs self-declared "new and improved" OpenSolaris released CDs. BTW, also 512 MB RAM here.
Seems that in the past, too, that the OpenSolaris liveCD folks and gals at SUN who have supported the OpenSolaris liveCD variants I tried certainly have been less than forthcoming to me.
Another impression is that it seems quite clear that any OpenSolaris community support is working under the strings of the $UN PR and $ales people lurking right behind the scenes, however much they may say that this is not fully true or only just temporary. Admittedly, the last time I tried using a non-Linux based liveCD was to compare one of the OpenSolaris liveCD variants with the *BSD liveCD variant FreeSBIE. Based on this, were I to stick with a non-Linux hd-installable *NIX on a 512 MB RAM system, it would easily be FreeBSD or even PC-BSD way way over the Solaris-like stuff SUN is pushing now. 2c |
| Steven_Rosenber May 07, 2008 9:36 PM EDT |
I remember the Project Indiana live CD running better than this. I'll have to try Milax (formerly Damn Small Solaris). |
| Steven_Rosenber May 07, 2008 9:54 PM EDT |
Just to prove a point, I burned a CD of Milax (http://www.milax.org/), the Russian project that attempts a "Damn Small" take on OpenSolaris. Sure enough, the thing starts just like the OpenSolaris CD, but then you log in (and the MilaX Web page tells you how to do it; login: alex, password: alex, su to root password: root) and get a shell immediately. Then type startx, and you're in a super-fast GUI (the JWM window manager). There aren't that many apps in MilaX but I was able to easily configure a static IP. Dillo wouldn't let me sign in to LXer (probably has cookies turned off ... easily fixed), but I'm in Elinks, which does allow cookies). Bottom line, a guy in Russia beats all the people at Sun when it comes to a usable desktop. |
| alc May 08, 2008 4:47 AM EDT |
I gave it a go on my laptop (T60 w/1 gig ram) and it worked as well as any live cd. It also got my wireless up and running with no help from me. |
| number6x May 08, 2008 7:44 AM EDT |
The iso boots fine in virtualbox on my linux laptop. I allocated 768MB ram and 128MB video to the virtual machine. (I have a 2.2 Ghz intel centrino dual core w/ 4096MB ram) I was suprised to see gnome and not nextstep or xfce or anything more like CDE. I'm letting it install to a virtual hard drive now. I've got to wrestle with some XML files for a few hours, but I'll let you know how it goes in VirtualBox (v 1.5.6) |
| number6x May 08, 2008 9:06 AM EDT |
Rebooted to an installed solaris in Virtual box. Slower than debian, Ubuntu 7.10 and Windows XP in virtual box. Runs fine, only a missing sound driver. Response is slower than I expect in virtual box. I ran the package manager and it said I had one (1) package to update. Package is called 'entire'. I checked the box and clicked 'Install/Update' the system slowed to a crawl... turns out 'entire' is a sort of meta-package for the 'entire incorporation' (Even if I read that description I wouldn't have guessed it meant something like a dist-upgrade). The result was a message saying: This action will affect other packages to be installed or updated. Click next to continue. 1 package will be updated 394 packages will be installed 2007 MB will be downloaded I clicked cancel I noted that the package tool correctly pluralizes the word 'package' in the message: 1 package will be updated 394 packages will be installed That is usually a sign that the development and testing team are paying attention to details. |
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