That's Mr. Mous to you ;-) I actually agree with you about the 500 megs of RAM issue. I've never gotten OpenSolaris 2008.05 to work in a decently usable way on a machine with only 500 megs of RAM. You really need a gigabyte of RAM if you want to run OpenSolaris 2008.05 with a GNOME desktop to simultaneously watch movies in VLC media player and surf the web in Firefox while ZFS works it's checksumming / transaction managing magic on your hard drive without everything becoming so slow as to be unusable.
However, if you don't want to upgrade the RAM, there's always Milax (a.k.a. darn small solaris with XFCE desktop) which runs brilliantly on my old Acer laptop that has only 500 megs of RAM in it. Check it out: http://www.milax.org/ I think it's also fair to say that bad RAM has been the #1 cause of crashes for me when running Solaris on cheap Intel x86 or x64 hardware. No problems when running it on SPARC hardware with ECC RAM (of course). Just set the SPARC server up on the internet and forget about it for a couple of years or so... probably won't ever even need a reboot. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
