The good: First, congrats on releasing another option with the solaris kernel.
I like the speed, for a live cd. Booting from CD on a 1.6GHz centrino laptop took 2 minutes flat to get the desktop (hit enter at language selection, it will auto login too). IPS. Usually, the first thing I do after I install SXDE is to pkgadd -d http://www.blastwave.org/pkg_get.pkg all And then install the few packages I am missing. pkg status -a will show what is available. The main thing here of course is to reach critical mass of usefull package that can cover all the end user needs. Like Audacity. Inkscape. qemu. Wine. Second Life. Gnome 2.20 (there's a downside for me also, see below). I can now drop fonts to 7 until I can get a new laptop with 1920 resolution. Nautilus crashes with font size < 8 on SXDE3 with Gnome 2.18.1. This is under system->preferences->appearance, not preferences->font in case anybody is looking for it, but if you are a gnome user, you knew that already. Latest SXCE/SXDE features like nwam and ZFS root! The bad: This is mostly a personal thing: Just in case anybody was expecting a JDS L&F, this is GNOME. Select the nimbus theme to get back in part the look and feel of JDS (you'll have to move stuff around too). I value highly screen real-estate, and a top and bottom bar take too much space. Also, not sure why but I cant resize my menu bar to less than 27 pixels. I usually run at around 22 pixels high. 27 is too big. In fact, It looks to me like 32+ pixels. It is related to the nimbus theme. Custom default or clearlooks does resize down. No way to preserve stuff on disk on install, so I couldn't complete this. I understand the technical why. New packaging management is cool, but not much apps at this point. The ugly: from a developer standpoint, this is definitely not usable out of the box. It is missing too much tools out of the box. Will not complete boot in qemu with kqemu and only gets to console login without kqemu. Ob screenshot: http://solarisdesktop.blogspot.com/2007/11/project-indiana.html In conclusion, this is showing potential, and since this is the slim CD, we'll have to see how the DVD release looks in march 08. Francois This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
