On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 12:03 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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?
Pardon? I'm sitting here with a laptop, 1gig, Nvidia graphics card etc. and certainly don't see it any less responsive than Windows Vista Business (which came preloaded), Fedora 7 or SLED 10 SP1. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
