On 3/2/06, Bill Rushmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, W. Wayne Liauh 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. > > > I have to strongly disagree with you there. Yes, the hardware doesn't > cover everything but that list is big. Just as an example I installed > OpenSolaris on my Sony TR1. This is a super small subnotebook with some > wierd hardware. I tried to install Linux on it and the install wouldn't > even work. Heck, the install of Windows XP pro failed because of the > hardware, only the recovery CD would work. But one day just for fun I > tried Solaris Express. The install just worked and I was on the Internet, > burning CDs, and reading files from my memory stick, WITH NO TWEAKING! I > downloaded a few packages and I had wireless. OpenSolaris wasn't perfect > on it but if I could get as much as I could work that easily on that odd > little thing then that really says something. > home users are too used to buy the hardware and then think about the software. Since most of them use windows, it's not a big deal because right now it is unthinkable to release a piece of hardware without windows drivers. In fact windows probably came preinstalled and with the proper drivers when they got their pc with solaris the equation was the other way round, people bought hardware to use solaris, that's mainly the reason solaris doesn't have a lot of drivers, there was simply no need for them, therefore noone actually asked sun for the drivers With opensolaris things have changed, people can try solaris for free, the problem is that they did not buy their pc to use solaris, and in most cases solaris was not even in their radar when they did, so naturaly they will have some problems with hardware drivers, for example, I still cannot use my cheap sata controller, I can say I learnt the leson the hard way it is a bit of a virtuous cycle, when os's grow more popular, hardware vendors write drivers for them, (check nvidia and linux or nvidia and solaris) the problem is that os's grow more popular when people actually use them and without drivers they can't. i bet hardware vendors would write drivers if there is cold hard cash involved, so, anyone willing to contribute? ;)
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