> I can't speak for SPARC given that a nice, > higher-performing (in my > view) system is still prohibitively expensive so I > have no experience > with them.
Used Sun Blade 2000, 2x1.05GHz CPU. Decent performance, reasonable price. Larger drives also off of eBay, ditto. > Also, I don't know what version of OSS you are > referring to, if you're > speaking of versions prior to the latest 4.x series, > then I would > suggest trying it out again. The 4.x series is a > large improvement in > my personal experience. Very latest 4.x. Definite performance problems on simple Logitech headset (some passages at certain frequencies had audible noises typical of performance problems, and enabling more than one of equalization and some other effect via ossxmix reduced the quality to utterly intolerable; an email I got said in effect that they hadn't done much for SPARC optimization yet). Also, Audigy NX USB doesn't work, period. (closer but no cigar with native USB audio drivers). The OSS person also more or less acknowledged that too. I presume they're working on it as time and resources allow, and that in the not all that distant future, it'll all be sorted out. I just wish it were sooner than later, so that I could have some nice GUI sheet music/composition/MIDI editing tools (not to mention better multimedia stuff) on [Open]Solaris for SPARC. I can't play anything or sight-read worth a hoot, but with something that plays MIDIs while highlighting the notes, I could probably get better at the latter, and with a really friendly composition editor, the former might not matter so much. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
