Hi Welcome :-)
> Is there a Ruby on Rails port for OS? How about > MySQL? Both exist for Solaris. mysql is in default install. RoR is available through Netbeans 6.0 + Sun Java App Server 9.1 (glassfish V2) + JRuby. JRuby is currently the fastest implementation of Ruby 1.8 (i.e. one that would run RoR, 1.9 doesn't yet do that). Benchmarks are available from several people, please google. I'm a happy user of SJAS and NB6 and they just work and are orders of magnitude better than any other web/app server I've used till now. Try it yourself. > I have a widescreen 22 inch monitor at 1680x1050. > Some Linux distros have problems with the resolution. > How is OS with monitor resolutions and a modern > Nvidia 3D card? Can't say much , but that resolution seems standard WUXGA. NVidia drivers are well supported (best?) and even come with dedicated control panel. So things ought to just work. I know, if my ATI can just work, anything else should :-) > I have an ext3 partition (and WinXP/NTFS on the same > hard drive) that Ubuntu currently rests on. Does the > OS installer have partition manager and will it > preserve my NTFS partition? Yes. I have dual boot with XP on my laptop. > Can I simply wipe/format the ext3 partition and install OS on it? Yes. Solaris only needs a single primary partition. It'd be better if you just "delete" the existing partition and let installer pick from there if you don't have an empty one. > Can it read NTFS drives with the proper app? Read support is good. Write support isn't yet there though FUSE is in works, so pretty soon(TM). > What about popular Linux apps? I like Amarok to > listen to while I work, is something like this > possible to install? Amarok works. That's what I use too. > Ubuntu has synaptic, Fedora has yum, OpenSuse has > yast. Is there a comparable package manager and > download option in OS or is it back to dependency > land and manual installs on everything? OpenSolaris (and Solaris) has blastwave repository. It's not integrated (IIIrd party) so it pulls damn everything... but if that's no issue for you, it's a piece of cake. > My interest in OpenSolaris is from the fact that I'd > like to eventually be a system administer for a Linux > and/or Unix environment. I also know that Solaris is > very stable. Spending time in Unix seems like a good > idea, but I also need an operating system for my > regular contract work--which is web development in > Rails. Rock-on :-) - Akhilesh This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
