I've been playing around with Linux quite a bit the past few years. I've been using Gentoo for most of the time, then switched to Arch because there was quite a bit less maintenance required but still offered the same amount of flexibility. Then I switched to Kubuntu because I wanted very low maintenance and very high ease of use. I'm not a fan of Ubuntu and I'm not sure what else I can try in terms of linux distributions that will offer something new to me.
So here I am. I found out about opensolaris about this time last year and tried it in Virtualbox and was pleased. So I decided to install it in it's own partition. The only problems I've run into so far are that my sound card doesnt have drivers installed, my network cards dont have drivers installed and need third party drivers, and I cant mount my ext3 drives. I have a working Windows install which I used to download the 3rd party drivers for my network cards onto my data drive (EXT3). Now I know I could put the files in a USB drive or cd and then copy them over but I want to be able to use my Ext3 partitions in OpenSolaris. The reason I dont want to change the filesystem is because I'll keep a copy of windows and maybe a linux distribution and I want these files accessible from all OSes. What can I do? Is there a filesystem that is fully compatible with OpenSolaris that I can also use in Linux and Windows? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
