1) You know those licensing reasons and sharks in suites ;-) But you don't need compile http://solaris.homeunix.com/ of course not everything is so OK
2) There are worst reasons for this ;-) Like non-standard libraries in system for C/C++ so even with Sun Studio you can't compile some apps. I don't think that this will change quickly if anytime 3) Are you rebooting your computer or using it? ;-) Boot process is not so quick on my OpenBSD too, but I can tweak it trough custom kernel. But why to do that? It boots in 45s or so (really don't know exactly) and for me is quality, stability and security much more important then boot quicker for about 10s or so 4) Sound system is quite old. A lot of improvements in last builds, but it's based on Solaris which was mainly server system and not musicians station ;-) Video...ehm...my Intel sucks on OpenSolaris. In OpenBSD it runs superb. Both are using Xorg, but OpenBSD use http://www.xenocara.org/ . Sun chose Nvidia and that's why you have GUI app for setting it in OpenSolaris. On OpenBSD 3D runs great on Intel, ATI, VIA and some really old Nvidia. Intel and ATI/AMD provide documentation, similar for VIA. Nvidia offer blobs..... 5) Yes. Some features are good, but overall feeling is like in horror including searching, deleting packages with dependencies and so on. Don't know why they do that when there is either pkgsrc for Solaris platform or rpm, apt-get and so on. OK last two are GPL so maybe this is a reason, but there are great packaging systems in BSD world. nice things: 1) yes because some drivers are ported from BSD world and Intel just add firmware. In BSD you must download firmware separately in package 2) correct. Only concurrency is http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/ 3) Mmmm maybe. It depends. 4) I don't think so. Solaris is better in this area (when comparing those 2 OS) 5) Yes 6) SMF is great and I can't see speed problems. 7) I know about better implemenation, but at least it's working so we must wait what will be in future -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
