Jason Antman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to install Solaris (either openSolaris Developer Edition or > Solaris 10) on my laptop. > > It is a custom-built (but guaranteed for Linux) system based on an AMD Athlon > Mobile 3400+. Currently, it has OpenSuSE 10.2 (64-bit) running. I have an > empty 9.9 Gb ext3 partition that I could use. > > so, I have a few questions for the community... > > 1) Any thoughts on Solaris 10 vs. openSolaris Developer Edition? > > Well considering where you have asked the question, SXDE is the better choice.
> 2) Any experience with hardware, both in terms of laptops and in terms of > AMD64? > > Plenty, any specific questions? > 3) I'm not too hot on the idea of messing with the partitions, mainly because > it's taken me a year to get the config on this laptop the way I want it, and > I don't currently have the architecture in place to do a full backup of the > 80+ Gb of data on the drive. Have many people had issues with doing such a > repartition? > > If you are looking to try OpenSolaris, why not use VMWare for starters? Ian
