Well, I certainly can not pay what your work is worth, thats for sure. Say it takes you 2-3 hours to figure this out. That would be some serious money (for me as a private person). A company would have no problems to pay you what your time is worth, though. Maybe it is better to drop Solaris instead and go back to Windows and Linux. Everyone say Solaris is good but is not for the common people and maybe there is a good reason for that. If it takes this much effort to get just a simple program running, I fear what it would crave when there arises serious problems. For instance, when I try to get VLC player running, _no one_ has ever succeeded to compile it for Solaris. That... sounds scary. To get a simple film viewer running craves hours of research into unknown territory? Ok, if I tried to do some FEM computations or high tech stuff, but this is plain vanilla operating environment. How is Sun going to conquer the desktop instead of Linux if the basic programs are not availab le, without doing research stuff no one has ever done before? And my Linux friends are bashing me for trying out Solaris. Maybe they are right? Maybe I was dumb to try out Solaris? I mean, Linux should do, at least for those needs an ordinary user have? How many needs Enterprise functions as in Solaris, and besides, Ive heard that Linux catches up quick. Or maybe switch to FreeBSD instead? The effort I am pouring into vanilla Solaris setup is scary though. I fear that soon there will be another Solaris basher, that strongly recommends against Solaris, for everyone willing to hear, in the world. "Ive tried Solaris each day for two weeks, and to get a plain environment up and running, craves research where no one has gone before. I have first hand experience of this, I know what I am talking about. And I have a M Sc in Math, and another M Sc in Comp Science, I am not that stupid."
Well, I am not completely ready to give up Solaris yet though. This is my vacation, and I can afford spending the time to get Solaris set up, with the programs a Linux/windows switcher needs at minimum. Anyway, I would appreciate help, and think that the Solaris community as a whole would benefit from a Wine package at Blastwave? Without Blastwave, switching to Solaris would not been feasible. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
