This may be heretical, but I would never think of Solaris as a desktop solution. It's a great server solution and has a passable desktop environment, but that has never been the focus.
On Feb 21, 2010, at 12:02 PM, George Silviu Enea wrote: > Hi there to all, dear friends! > > I`m new to OpenSolaris, and in the last 2 years I left Windows and tried > several Linux distributions. At the moment I`m using openSUSE 11.3 and I love > it, but... something`s missing... I didn`t found the perfect OS... yet... > > Came to know about OpenSolaris... I installed it, but everything seems to be > hard... the sound does not work.. cannot find any new updates... I used > OpenSolaris 2009.06 > > But the reason I`m opening this thread is to ask which are the reasons for > using OpenSolaris, and what OpenSolaris offers for a everyday desktop user > that Linux or Windows does not offer... I enjoy OpenSolaris... but everything > seems to be so difficult for me to do (install programs for example). I > really want to know all the benefits it is offering, and if there is a reason > to pass all this difficulties... > > Please give me some reason, and I`ll use OpenSolaris, I`ll learn how works > and I`ll spread the word about it here in my country. > > Thank you so so much!!! Greatly appreciate it! > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > eSoft SpamFilter Training Tool > Train as Spam > Blacklist for All Users > Whitelist for All Users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20100221/9d98db98/attachment.html>
