On 3/2/06, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personally, I don't see how OpenSolaris could receive its deserved attention
> (and respect) if no one outside the existing Solaris community can install it.
>
> This inadequacy IMNSHO has a lot to do with the relative lack of attention
> paid to hardware drivers in Sun's own official releases. I keep five PCs
> (desktops and notebooks) in my little personal lab. So far, without outside
> helps, I have not been able to make a functional Solaris system out of any of
> these machines (the problems mostly had to do with lack of NIC or video
> drivers). Ironically, I have NO problem running either NexentaOS or Belenix
> on ANY of these five machines.
I wouldn't say it is ironic, so much as it is that these distributions
bundle non-Sun drivers.
There are three specific sets of drivers I would *love* to see
integrated to Solaris proper:
- nVidia's graphics driver
- Masayuki Murayama's ethernet drivers:
http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
- Garrett d'Amore's ethernet drivers:
http://sol-enet.sourceforge.net/
nVidia's driver obviously could only be included binary-only, but from
what I understand Masayuki's and Garrett's drivers are (for the most
part) BSD licensed and should be able to be included in Solaris and
even OpenSolaris/ON with little trouble. This would in particular
make net installs much easier for some of us.
--
Eric Enright
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