Frank wrote: > Hi, my Tecra M3 is going to break down any week now - though, it served good > for me over ~4 years. As per company (guess wich ...) policy, for the time > being there is no good replacement for it (the M10 is too heavy and wide and > also looks ugly, btw). So, even that I'm no Apple fanboy at all I examined > the specs and read some blogs on the MacBook (Pro) running OpenSolaris. The > HW is fine. Well, some keys are missing and the touchpad is somewhat strange > for me. Anyway, does anyone have good experience w/ OpenSolaris on a Macbook- > maybe besides Windows XP (OSX is a no brainer for me). Any essential dirvers > that won't work like sound, touchpad and/or wifi? Any other glitches I'll > experience? > > TIA > Sound works with OSS, Ethernet from Marvell's support site, Atheros works using a newer package from OpenSolaris.org. You'll need a pendrive or the network drivers on a CD. It all depends which model you go with. The revision 1/2/3 have Atheros, but now they apparently use Broadcom again, but NDISwrapper should work, as long as it's running in 32-bit mode. If it's a regular Macbook this won't cause any harm to you. The Pro's NVIDIA graphics are superb, and they have dual cards now, but I think that's too new to be well supported. If you can get a June 2007 model, they work well enough. Just keep in mind the key mappings require work and the iSight doesn't work (In the future, the HAL blob may be usable as it is under Linux).
Brian Leonard's Java Weblog is the best article right now IMHO. http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bleonard/archive/2008/05/_opensolaris_20.html James
