On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:01 PM, jay krik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, thanks all for some of your explanations. Most I understood before > hand. > About manufacturers of devices and drivers for the popular windows and > such. > Unlike some people, I really don't want to learn or tinker with some of the > inner workings. Just want to fire up and run. > Type letters, email, browse, photo view and edit, just day to day tasks. > So when people say edit this or edit that or install this or that, I get > confused by what they are trying to say. > I went back and installed 2010.03 developer. Install worked fine till I > removed cd and booted from HD. Then it went into a loop. I see several > people with different machines experienced this problem. Mathias and another > person helped me work through a fix, but it is a bug that should not of been > there before it was released to be downloaded, even as a developer version. > But now I need to make the fix permanent by editing a system file. > The purpose of developer builds is to allow users to preview what might be coming in the next release but also to get widespread testing before code is actually released. You should NOT expect it to be free of major bugs. In fact, that is exactly what you should expect. What the project expects back from your usage of developer builds is that you are willing to report bugs and spend some time providing additional information. Probably not your case but I've noticed some people view developer builds as some kind of upgrade from the previous release and I have a hard time understanding why. Perhaps it's because of the high quality of those builds (or OpenSolaris overall). -- Giovanni
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