Nexenta is a good desktop distro if you're familiar with Ubuntu or Debian. 
There's also Solaris Express, but it isn't pure OpenSolaris. Nvidia's driver 
should work for your GF 4MX, so you can have 3D support. Otherwise I'm going to 
guess you have an nForce 2 chipset, which ought to be supported, except 
possibly for the NIC. I know even Linux and the BSDs have trouble with some 
nForce NICs.

As for software, you'll have to tell us what you need. I had to compile mplayer 
myself with a few patches, avoiding the latest version to get support 
equivalent to my Linux machine. The Nexenta package doesn't properly support 
all win32 codecs.  Other apps like Firefox, Evolution, and Gaim just work.
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