UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, I gave Solaris 10 (11/06) a shot. Solaris barfed
> > all over me; like a girlfriend you love but who just
> > can't get it together, it wouldn't get past the
> > initial display probe and gave me an unintelligible
> > (read blank) GUI screen.
>
> Welcome to the club! I've had problems with Solaris 10 and my laptop as well.
> For starters, Solaris 10 1/06 (back when it came out), just plain busted with
> some bizzare RAM error message flooding my screen. I knew my RAM chips were
> good because Windows XP Home ran just fine on this laptop, and so did
> SchilliX, the very first OpenSolaris distro.
>
> You tried and threw up your hands in the air. I didn't, because it pissed me
> off to high heavens.
My impression is that a current Nevada build with Gnome desktop
will not work decently if it has less than 2 GB of RAM.
This is really bad. Firefox + Xserver will soon consume 1.3 GB together
and a 1 GB system will start excessive paging. Is this really needed?
Jörg
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