this isn't really a reply. As I can't offer any help. New user to Open solaris.
I am really disappointed in the hassle to get any version up and running.
I don't have the time or experience (any more) to have to keep coming up with
"patches" to get the damn thing to work.
I downloaded 2009.06 and it would not recognize my network card.
So I went to Open Solaris 2010.03 developer. well it works fine from the live
cd.
I tried using gpart to make a boot up partition and leave rest unallocated.
I tried letting the install program leaving one large partition (the whole
disk), I tried making a solaris 2 partition from the installer.
Nothing works.
Every time I boot from Hard drive it goes into a continual loop, the opening
grub menu, back to the bios screen and then the grub again.
For a company as big as Sun / Oracle this is totally unacceptable, free or not!
I see you people talking about manually adding a line here or there. But
unfortunately I have no idea of how to go about this and what the next step
would be.
An installable version should be just that, installable as is and at least
usable to the average user.
I tried installing the Solaris 10 version also. It won't boot from a hard drive
either.
I bought a brand new ACER laptop last month just to experiment with "Solaris"
as I figured something would go wrong. It did, it wiped the hard drive and took
out the windows partition.
As I said I am NOT impressed.
As for Sun/ Oracle not communicating with you all.
I've seen it and experienced it before.
sometimes a company gets so big it thinks it no longer needs the people that
made it big and pushes them aside, whether it's employees that deserve better
or people like the open community that contribute to the product.
Eventually it becomes their downfall and stifles development.
Like they say, never bite the hand that feeds you.
That is what oracle is doing right now.
And there is nothing any of us can do about it.
Course for you code writers and programmers, you can always apply your talents
to another version of unix / linux/ solaris. Just don't write for Oracle
themselves.
They want to be secretive, fine, then let them do it all on their own for a
while!
And see what happens. If you stagnate you wither and die and eventually that is
what will happen to the Solaris OS. I've seen it before!
So I would suggest you assist in developing some of the other versions of unix
/ linux/ ubuntu etc. Help them make themselves the best!
For me I guess it's back to windows, even though I don't want to go there.
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