On Sun, 28 May 2006, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:

> > Cheers. (from the patio at my parent's house using VPN over wifi;-)
> 
> Which is nice, but the fact is, thats server software - I'm refering
> to workstation software.

Exactly how is wifi "server software"?

> Sure, I can advocate Solaris as a great server OS, it wins hands down;
> but please, lets not try to kid ourselves that Solaris is there as a
> workstation OS, it hasn't even hit FreeBSD ease of use yet - if it
> reached that, then I'd be very happy, in fact, so happy I'd run around
> my house naked, but the simple fact if I were to load Solaris 10 on
> right now, there is no way to easily upgrade my X server, put an up to
> date KDE on it.

You can: just install the latest stuff from Blastwave.  But please keep
you clothes on...

> I want to see Solaris improve, but at the same time, its a painful
> experience using it as a desktop.

Speak for yourself.  I'm very comfortable using Solaris as my desktop.

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