+------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | On (13/10/05 15:56), W. Wayne Liauh wrote: | | To: [email protected] | From: "W. Wayne Liauh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:56:08 PDT | Subject: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: StarOffice 8 | | Jim Grisanzio wrote: | | <Solaris runs nicely on my laptop.> | | Same here. It's picky, but when it runs, it runs very well. Also a lot of thanks to Sun for making available the Solaris version of StarOffice 8. | | I wonder if any of our resident Solaris experts can explain the following to me: | | In Windows and Linux, it typically takes about half a minute or so (at least 10 seconds) to power down a laptop/desktop, but it is almost instant in Solaris. This is one of most awe-drawing moments when I demoed my Solaris notebook to my Linux/Windows comrades. Why is this so? The Solaris system was based on the default configuration. TIA
The main thing that is stopping me from putting Solaris on my laptop is wireless support (which I know is making progress in nevada). When that gets done, I would love to put it on my laptop. Till then it is either Linux or FreeBSD. It is kinda nice showing people though, instantly killing the "Slowaris" myth. Linux seems to be slow to shutdown, yet *BSD are to be quick. Some of it has to do with shutdown scripts and waiting to sync and kill processes, but still :) | This message posted from opensolaris.org | _______________________________________________ | opensolaris-discuss mailing list | [email protected] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
